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"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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"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
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"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
"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."
"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."
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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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