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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
"To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while."
"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
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"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."
"We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life."
"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."
"You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years."
"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."
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