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"The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring."
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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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"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"
"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
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"Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great)."
"A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas."
"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
"In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it."
"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
"I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time."
"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."
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