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"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."
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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."
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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."
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"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."
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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
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"It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced."
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"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."
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"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."
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"The world is full of haters, stand for what you believe in and believe in what you stand for."
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"She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it."
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"Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart."
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"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
People
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought
"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."
Dream
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
"You must write to the people's expertise."
People
"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
Humor
"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
Students
"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
Writing
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
Science
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