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"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"No one has the Houdini school of composition."
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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
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"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over."
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"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
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"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
Character

"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
People

"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."
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