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

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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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Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

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The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can't ...more