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"I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones."
People
"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."
Imagination
"Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen."
Telling
"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
Positive
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
Communication
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
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"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
Work
"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
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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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"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too."
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