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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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