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"Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established."
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"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."

"Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both."

"Don't be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up."

"If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love."

"Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success"

"The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers."

"There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed bedding while she lovingly rolls her sweet shoulders into his chest. Whereas, there are times to be stoic and solitary-sleeping alone on a wooden board with twill sheets and splinters that scratch the skin."
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"The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time."

"But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives."

"Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning."

"Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction."

"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."

"I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it."
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