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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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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'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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The big talent is persistence.
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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