I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?


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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
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Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
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Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
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No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
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I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
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When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
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There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
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Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
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First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
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If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
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One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
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The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
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There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
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If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
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You fail only if you stop writing
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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