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I lost an arm on my last trip home.

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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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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 big talent is persistence.
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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 me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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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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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 was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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