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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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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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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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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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