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" I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. "

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" I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. "

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" When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. "

" If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. "

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" After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. "

" The important thing is to be in love with something. "

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

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" I'm not a futurist. "

" I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. "

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" Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. "

" Libraries raised me. "

" I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. "

" My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. "

" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "

" We are anthill men upon an anthill world. "

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" You fail only if you stop writing. "

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