Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

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AVA RICHARDSON I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of c...
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GAYLE GARDNER In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it...
GARDNER DOZOIS When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train...
GARDNER DOZOIS I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty ...
GARDNER DOZOIS Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share...
GARDNER DOZOIS Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Micha...
GARDNER DOZOIS An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has pote...
GARDNER DOZOIS Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and...
CORY GARDNER We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with bor...
CORY GARDNER It's a family; lacrosse is not like any other sport, it's more of a way of life.
ADAM GARDNER I've been to a few of those and they've been really powerful.
ADAM GARDNER It's great not only talking about community service in theory but actually doing it.
ADAM GARDNER I never really thought of community service as a movement, but it is.
ADAM GARDNER Reverb is a nonprofit group my wife and I started a few years ago.
ADAM GARDNER New Hampshire has always been a good state.
ADAM GARDNER The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to pr...
CORY GARDNER All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of w...
JOHN GARDNER Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't...
ROBERT GARDNER If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
EDWARD GARDNER

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

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