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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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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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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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