"I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower."
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"Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?"
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"I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help."
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"All isn't well with the world."
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"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
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"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it."
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"Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do."
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"I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them."
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"Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft."
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"I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!"
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"Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett."
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"Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future."
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"I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish."
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"I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!"
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"I don't believe in colleges and universities."
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"Love is easy, and I love writing."
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"I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money."
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"Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book."
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"When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."
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"Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite."
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