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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
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"The great discoveries are usually obvious."
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"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."
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"It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Science
"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
Education
"The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great."
Gratitude
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Death
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
Books
"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
Technology
"Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it, that's not what you mean."
Mystery
"Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers."
Fantasy
"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
Mystery
"It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion."
Literature
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