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" I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. "

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" I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. "

" We've got to dumb America up again. "

" The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. "

" I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. "

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" We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. "

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" The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. "

" In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. "

" If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. "

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" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

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" Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' "

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. "

" In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. "

" We're all dreamers. "

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" My business is to prevent the future. "

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