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"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried. She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there. Neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace."
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"Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year."
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"Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."
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"The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place."
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"Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare."
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"I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country."
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"You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything."
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"It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time."
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"The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him."
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"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
Deception
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
Learning
"As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me."
Medical
"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."
Dream
"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."
Courage
"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
Space
"In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities."
Science
"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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