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Robert Sheckley

"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."

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"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
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"I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory."
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"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
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"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
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"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it."
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"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out."
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"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
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