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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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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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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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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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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 have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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