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"I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."
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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."
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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."
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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
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"Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them."
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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
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"In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather."
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"Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged."
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"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
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"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
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"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."
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"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."
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"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
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