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“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
“A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer.”
“The great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”
“All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is.”
“All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin.”
“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals.”
“If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.”
“I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.”
“She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.”
“When you feel a conflict, try to go the Oankali way. Embrace difference.”