It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the value of personal narratives and the investigation of human emotions and motives.
Isaac Asimov highlights the importance of storytelling and the exploration of the complexities of human nature. He suggests that understanding the intricate dynamics of motives and emotions within personal or fictional narratives can provide deep insights into the human experience, making it a significant area of interest.
In practice
In a writing workshop, one might quote this to emphasize the significance of character development.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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