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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely."

"Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!"

"No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers."

"I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."
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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."

"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."

"Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction."

"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."

"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."

"Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms."

"I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading."

"The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations."

"People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others."
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