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When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.


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TED CRUZ We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl...
TED CRUZ I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
TED CRUZ This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more a...
TED CRUZ I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the script...
TED CRUZ I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because y...
TED CRUZ If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
TED CRUZ It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ...
TED CRUZ I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
TED CRUZ I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
TED CRUZ In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
TED CRUZ I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
TED CRUZ Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
TED CRUZ The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world...
TED CRUZ When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi...
TED CHIANG I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol...
TED CHIANG We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
TED CHIANG I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhal...
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