"Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power."
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"The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor."
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"Journalism keeps you planted in the earth."
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"Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together."
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"Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books."
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"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."
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"Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future."
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"The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do."
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"Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths."
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"Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income."
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"Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did."
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"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me."
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"I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off."
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"I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about."
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"There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future."
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"I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade."
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"You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you."
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"A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it."
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"I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all."
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"You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films."
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