W. Bruce Cameron Quotes
It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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Ch. 4 : The Garden
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
