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• Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
• Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds…
• There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond…
• You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
• I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…
• I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…
• The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
• You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting…
• Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but…
• God is the nest we build together.
• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer…
• My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat…

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