"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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"Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing."
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"I lost an arm on my last trip home."
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"Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?"
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"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
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"The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny."
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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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"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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"I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer."
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"Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach."
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