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Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

- Daniel Keys Moran

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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

- Daniel Keys Moran

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

- Daniel Keys Moran

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

- Daniel Keys Moran

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

- Daniel Keys Moran

Police do not belong in war zones.

- Daniel Keys Moran

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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

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A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

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