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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
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"He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
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"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."
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"I give with reason."
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"If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?"
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"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
Life
"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
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
Fiction
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
Reason
"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
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