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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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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"We are all many things. Sometimes people get used to us being the one thing they most expect from us, and they don't know how to handle the other many things we are and have to offer. This is not our limitation to own. Let's be whatever many things our heart calls us to be. There's not a lot of consistency in freedom, aside from fluid movement among the many things we are. And that's a mighty beautiful thing."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."
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"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."

"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."

"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

"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."

"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."

"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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