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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
Science
"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
Fiction
"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
Emotional
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
Woman
"I used to not back down from a challenge."
Challenge
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
Education
"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
Family
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
Life
"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
Character
"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
Education
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