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" You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. "

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" All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. "

" Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? "

" Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. "

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

" I got started as an actor when I was 12. "

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" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

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

" Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. "

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" We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. "

" Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. "

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" Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive. "

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

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

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" You fail only if you stop writing. "

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" Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. "

" Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. "