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“Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.”

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As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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“She was perhaps seventeen when it happened. She was in Central Park, in New York. It was too warm for such an early spring day, and the hammered brown slopes had a dusting of green of precisely the consistency of that morning's hoarfrost on the rocks. But the frost was gone and the grass was brave and tempted some hundreds…

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“Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn’t he known? Hadn’t he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had…

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Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

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I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who…

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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as…

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It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

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Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

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Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against…

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