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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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"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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"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life."
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"Reason is not always reasonable."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
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"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
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"A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?"
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"Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind."
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"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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"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."
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"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."
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