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  • Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. (Richard Aldington (88))
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  • Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. (Brian Aldiss (88))
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  • After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • I loved all the world's mythologies. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • There's this huge number of desperate people. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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  • When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States. (Lloyd Alexander (88))
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