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"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."

"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."

"Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families."

"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."

"I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them."

"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."


"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."


"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."


"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."


"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."


"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."
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