Joe Haldeman
Author
1943-06-09
Quotes by Joe Haldeman
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The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.
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One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.
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Bad books on writing tell you to WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
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Bad books on writing tell you to WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
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One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.
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The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.
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There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
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