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Quotes by Writer
"A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners."
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"He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure."
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"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
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"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
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"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."
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"Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go."
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"Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion."
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"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
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"The oppressor is never as free as they think they are."
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"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."
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"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game."
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"Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself."
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"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."
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"We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization."
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"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires."
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"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK."
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"You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country."
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
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"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them."
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"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
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"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."
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"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."
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"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
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"We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist."
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"Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog."
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"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
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"In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites."
Fact,
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"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."
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"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
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"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
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