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" Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. "

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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. "

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" If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. "

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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. "