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"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.
Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.
But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.
Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?
It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.
What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.
Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.
I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.