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Quotes by Writer
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
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"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband."
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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
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"There used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason on insanity." These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminished mental capacity to even think about rape; to carry one out would be the strongest possible proof of insanity - but among Loonies such mental disorders would not gain a rapist any sympathy. loonies do not psychoanalyze a rapist; they kill him. Now. Fast. Brutally."
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"It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter."
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"This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles."
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"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
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"The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity."
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"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."
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"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."
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"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly."
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"Politics is activity in relation to power."
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"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
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"Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done."
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"My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations."
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"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know."
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"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
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"I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference."
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"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."
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"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy."
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."
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"I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money."
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"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."
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"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."
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"You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's."
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"You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it."
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"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."
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"I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this."
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"You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option."
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"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."
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"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
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"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
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