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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
Reason
"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."
Reading
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever."
Dream
"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
Writing
"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
Students
"In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities."
Science
"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."
Medical
"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."
Courage
"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."
Deception
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