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- There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
- Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy…
- The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any…
- Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.
- How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it…
- I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
- You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
- When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
- That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and…
- The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to…
- it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not…
- Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said…
- As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to…
- You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go…
- The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.
- That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child,…
- The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most…
- Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
- People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give…
- Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces…
- Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't…
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