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- 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…
- Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
- Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good…
- If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your…
- But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind.…
- When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they…
- Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered…
- In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person…
- But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me…
- As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,…
- I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in…
- 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,…
- Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence…
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