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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

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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 lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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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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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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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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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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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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 victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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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 just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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