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From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to ...more

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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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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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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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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will e...more

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The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. "May I ask you a question?""Yes.""Have you ever thought you were Christ?""I can't say...more

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Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze ...more

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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all o...more

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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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They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Dar...more

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...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more...more

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Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

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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