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"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Give light and people will find the way."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
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"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."
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"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
Future


"I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read."
Time


"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
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"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."
Being


"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
People


"In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God."
God


"This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
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"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."
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