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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."

"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."

"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."

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

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

"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."


"As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me."


"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."


"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."


"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."


"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
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