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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting…
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Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial…
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