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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product."
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."
"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
"This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
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