Joe Haldeman Quotes
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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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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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
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I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
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I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.
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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.
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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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'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'
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Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
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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.
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Rationalism doesn’t require 'belief,' only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe.
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'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
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She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.
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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.
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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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Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
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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.'