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"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."
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"Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!"
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"As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread."
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"One who has both feet firmly planted in the air."
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"My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud!"
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"Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and-" He stood up. "Let's dance."
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"The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers."
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
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"Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression."
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"She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too old. Nobody told me you were so old. I really don't want to be rude but - there it is. You're too old. I'm really sorry." She turned abruptly and blundered out of the room, rather like a desperate moth in lamplight. Poirot, his mouth open, heard the bang of the front door. He ejaculated: "Non d'un nom d'un nom..."
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"I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married."
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"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."
Learning
"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
"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
"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
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"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
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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."
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"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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"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
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"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
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