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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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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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