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Men read science fiction to imagine tomorrow, while some think women will become the future. Gardening gives a quiet spot for deep thoughts, and even mistakes can turn into lessons. A love for fire and the urge to speak up show how men chase big ideas and shadows.

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We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

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But no man's a hero to himself.

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Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing…

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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

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When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

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“Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.”

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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

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I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour,…

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Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot…

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Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But…

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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.…

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It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a…

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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we…

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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked…

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And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together…

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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in…

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And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face…

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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for…

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There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come…

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I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is…

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It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched…

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Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier…

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I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves…

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They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She…

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I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed…

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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…

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Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

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Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

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If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you…

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Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a…

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“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man man…

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I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite…

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We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the…

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When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority