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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
Emotional
"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."
Books
"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
"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
"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
People
"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
Age
"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
Food
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
Beginning
"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
Books
"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
Writing
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