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"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Give light and people will find the way."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."
Reading
"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
Science
"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."
Being
"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
People
"In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God."
God
"This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
Food
"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
Work
"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."
Truth
"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
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"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."
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