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"As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people."
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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."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government."


"Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand."


"I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom."


"Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it."


"As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people."
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