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"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"Real living is living for others."
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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that."
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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
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"We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive."
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"I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures."
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"My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it."
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"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."
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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."
Want
"I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well."
Internet
"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."
Writing
"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
Books
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
Energy
"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."
Writing
"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
Religion
"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"
Life
"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
Chance
"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
Age
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