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" Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Anything
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He
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" Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. "
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" I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. "
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