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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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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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
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The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
