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" What is a hero without love for mankind. "

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" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "

Science Fiction

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" Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. "

Black And White

" It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. "

" When there's a war, people get married. "

" I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. "

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" I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. "

" There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. "

" When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. "

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" There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. "