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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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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 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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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 trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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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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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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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 was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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