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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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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.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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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.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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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.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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