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"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment."
"Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge."
"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"In studying the psychological significance of a religious or political doctrine, we must first bear in mind that the psychological analysis does not imply a judgement concerning the truth of the doctrine one analyzes. This latter question can be decided only in terms of the logical structure of the problem itself."
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"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
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