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When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in...more

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should...more

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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

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They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an ...more

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Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great reli...more

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Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, s...more

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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, ...more

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It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he...more

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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just g...more

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It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with...more

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There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay f...more

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Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.