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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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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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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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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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