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Quotes from In Memory Yet Green — Isaac Asimov

1920–1992 United States

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The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say.

In Memory Yet Green (1979)

The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.

In Memory Yet Green (1979)

Certain success evicts one from the paradise of winning against the odds.

In Memory Yet Green (1979)

There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one.

In Memory Yet Green (1979)

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

In Memory Yet Green (1979)

The undramatic fact is that I just think and think and think until I have something [for a story], and there is nothing marvelous or artistic about the phenomenon.

In Memory Yet Green (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Asimov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.