- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
- Cast
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- Nov 07, 2020
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
- Gather
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- Nov 07, 2020
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
- I Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.
- Oppose
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- Nov 07, 2020
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020