It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIf you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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