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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

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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 would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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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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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
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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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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The big talent is persistence.
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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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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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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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