"Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?"
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"The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love."
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"Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending."
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"I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done."
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"The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."
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"Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people."
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"Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone."
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"When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite."
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"Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head."
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"The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool."
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"(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)"
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"The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it."
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"So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books."
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"Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."
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"Not to write, for many of us, is to die."
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"You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead"
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"Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about."
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"The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’"
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"I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?"
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"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course."
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