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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
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I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say no, never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004) -
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
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