"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you."
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"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."
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"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
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"We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms."
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"The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
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"Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns."
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"You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address."
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"Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons."
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"Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs."
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"Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them."
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"Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing."
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"There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves"
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"Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up."
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"Life is about trying things to see if they work."
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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."
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"A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem."
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"Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible."
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"Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life."
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"Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper."
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"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
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