I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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