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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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Personal Development
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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Personal Development
"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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Personal Development
"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded."
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Personal Development
"I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records."
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Personal Development
"Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods."
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Personal Development
"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."
Philosophy
"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
Environment
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society
"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
War
"Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."
Literature
"He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before-in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested."
Social
"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
Music
"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
Literature
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