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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer…
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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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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are…
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more…
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When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had…
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it,…
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One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be…
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
— Alan Perlis
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