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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
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Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.
Joe Haldeman
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I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.
Joe Haldeman -
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman -
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
Joe Haldeman -
We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course-and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels.
Joe Haldeman -
Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
Joe Haldeman -
You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
Joe Haldeman
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Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.
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Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
Joe Haldeman -
'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'
Joe Haldeman -
It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
Joe Haldeman -
'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
Joe Haldeman -
Rationalism doesn’t require 'belief,' only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe.
Joe Haldeman
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It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.
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She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.
Joe Haldeman -
I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.
Joe Haldeman -
Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
Joe Haldeman -
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
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'We’re inferring from an absence of data,' Jacque said. 'That’s lousy science.'
Joe Haldeman