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"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought
"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."
Dream
"You must write to the people's expertise."
People
"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."
Humor
"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
"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
Science
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
Learning
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
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