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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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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be…
— Carl Sagan
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which…
— Susan Sontag
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The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our…
— Barack Obama
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The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
— Edward Abbey
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A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find…
— Carl Sagan
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts…
— Carl Sagan
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[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
— Carl Sagan
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Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We…
— Henri Nouwen
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Staring down hard truth takes guts.
— Joan Bauer
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Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
— George R. R. Martin
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