"You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode."
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"Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay."
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"I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people."
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"A day without writing was a little death."
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"Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization."
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"Every day is Christmas Day to a dog."
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"This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars."
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"When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way."
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"I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good."
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"When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity."
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"Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library."
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"And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets."
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"Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle."
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"How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"
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"Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry."
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"We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty."
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"You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn."
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"I believe in Darwin and God together."
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"When you're older you want to learn from other people."
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"Evil has only the power we give it."
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