"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."

-- A. E. van Vogt

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“Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.”

Source : Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.24, Indiana University Press
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
“Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.”
“There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.”
“That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.
“Clowns are always creepy!”
“But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.”
“Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.”

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