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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."
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"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
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"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."
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"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."
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"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
Writing
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."
Family
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."
Life
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."
Work
"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Life
"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."
People
"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them."
Life
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Family
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