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"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
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"Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love."
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"Always act as if you are living the epitome of a magnificent life."
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"Dream, desire, and then dare to discover."
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"When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life."
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"The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively."
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"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"
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"PULL and PUSH" are basic principles of life. You must PULL to work hard and then PUSH to give hard"... The reason why we gain is to give!"
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"In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance."
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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
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"Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing."
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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."
Money
"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."
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"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
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"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."
Science
"There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years."
Science
"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."
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"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"
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"And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature."
Literature
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