Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
A. S. ByattYou are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.
A. S. ByattOne of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
A. S. ByattI don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
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