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"Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future."
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"The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!"

"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."

"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"

"Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future."

"As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined."

"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"
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"As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones."

"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

"Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction."

"The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed."

"The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control."

"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."

"The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight."

"The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time."

"We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us."
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