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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it.…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.…
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions…
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but…
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented…
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…
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