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Quotes by Writer
"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."
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"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
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"Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: "Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful!" At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: "Am I, love?"
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"Nothing is my last word on anything."
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"Never tease an old dog, he might have one bite left."
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
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"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."
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"I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held."
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"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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"However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us."
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"Education attainment is a kind of achievement that nobody can seize from us as the assets we own in our regular lives because we earned it with the use of our own knowledge and creativity."
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"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."
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"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."
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"Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple."
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"Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness."
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"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."
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"Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime."
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"Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him."
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"The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person."
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"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."
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"Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another."
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"Man has his will - but woman has her way."
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"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
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"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it."
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"Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?"
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"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."
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"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
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"A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it."
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"World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!"
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"Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!"
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"Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways."
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"Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it."
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"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."
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"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written."
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"When you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope."
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"Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact."
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"Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it."
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