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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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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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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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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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