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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ...…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is…
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing…
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,…
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but…
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,…
— William Buckland
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Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,…
— James A. Garfield
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat…
— Karl Pearson
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
— Calvin Coolidge
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The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Hunger is the handmaid of genius
— Mark Twain
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure…
— Andre Malraux
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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
— Horace Mann
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