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"The more you reason the less you create."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"
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"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."
"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
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