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“I never conceived of myself as participating in some Oedipal anxiety about literary predecessors. Perhaps this is one of the great gifts of being a feminist: you’re off the hook from all that crap.”
― The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
― The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
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“I looked around my office with quiet satisfaction. The place looked pretty nice. I had pictures on the walls of me posing with clues, getting yelled at by the mayor, and so on. There was a calendar on one wall that was running a couple of years slow, but it looked okay and had the months right, so I left it up. On another wall was a sign that said "DO IT TOMORROW". I got it cheap because it's bad advice.”
― The Time Machine Did It
― The Time Machine Did It
“Whoever said you can’t fool an honest man wasn’t one.”
― Making Money
― Making Money
“No one outside the family has ever known the full story," he said. "You must swear you'll never reveal a word of what I'm about to tell you to anyone."
I said sure, you got it, Ace. And I meant it, too. But the thing people should know about me when they swear me to secrecy is that I don't have a good memory. The first thing I forget is that it's a secret. The second thing I forget is who told me this secret. The third and final thing I forget is the secret itself. So if you tell me something in the strictest secrecy, you're guaranteeing that everyone in the world will know this secret except me.”
― The Time Machine Did It
I said sure, you got it, Ace. And I meant it, too. But the thing people should know about me when they swear me to secrecy is that I don't have a good memory. The first thing I forget is that it's a secret. The second thing I forget is who told me this secret. The third and final thing I forget is the secret itself. So if you tell me something in the strictest secrecy, you're guaranteeing that everyone in the world will know this secret except me.”
― The Time Machine Did It
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