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I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
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Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.
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I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
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What you cannot control, you must accept.
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Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
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Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
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the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
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A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.
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Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: Look at me! Look at me!
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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
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