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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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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another 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."
"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"Good God. Men everywhere."
"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."
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"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."
"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."
"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."
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