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We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.
I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.
Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.
The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.
I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?
It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.
Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.
It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).
You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.