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

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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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