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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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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 said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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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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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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