Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
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The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
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My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.
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I'm curvy.
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The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
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Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
