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wild-imagination imagination wonderful
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
movie enormous checks
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
science fiction science-fiction
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
science sake fiction
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
watches carpenter
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
years half firsts
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
might sun tomorrow
Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.
blank-mind mouths shapes
The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
men order trying
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
apology firsts criminals
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
citing ends seems
I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
erotic admiration function
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
thinking style demand
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
party balance realizing
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.