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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Idea
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
Expectation
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
Books
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
Enthusiasm
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Kids
"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
People
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
Books
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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Personal Development
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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Personal Development
"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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Personal Development
"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
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Personal Development
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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Personal Development
"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."
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"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."
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Personal Development
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
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Personal Development
"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far."
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