Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
Quotes to Explore
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
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Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
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So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
