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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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