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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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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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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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 would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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