"To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art."

-- Robert Grudin

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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
“I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My control of English, however you define it, my ability to work in English, is more limited than in Bulgarian. That means out of necessity I have to develop a style that goes for clarity of expression which I may not have done otherwise.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.”
“Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.”
“If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.”
“All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.”

Source : "Lucifer Book Five".
“We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.”
“That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.”

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