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Quotes by Writer
"I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous."
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"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."
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"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
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"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
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"Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network."
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"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."
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"Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved."
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"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."
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"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."
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"An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space."
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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
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"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."
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"The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play."
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"Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!' Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back."
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"In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope."
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"You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility."
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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
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"I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness."
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"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."
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"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."
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"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
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"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."
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"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
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"Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."
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"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
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"Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, I'll be with you in Havnor. And if you ever need me again, call me. I will come. I would come from my grave if you called me, Tenar! But I cannot stay with you."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."
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"Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back."
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