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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the 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."

"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."

"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."

"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."

"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."

"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."

"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."

"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."

"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
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