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John M. Ford

"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."

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Donna Grant

"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

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Donna Grant

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

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Donna Grant

"Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is."

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Donna Grant

"Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts."

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Donna Grant

"If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed."

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Donna Grant

"Faeces by any other name would smell as gross."

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Donna Grant

"In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons."

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Donna Grant

"Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception."

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Donna Grant

"Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many unidentified living creatures on this planet earth which might be even more dreadful."

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Donna Grant

"Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront."

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John M. Ford
"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation."

Writing

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John M. Ford
"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."

Choice

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John M. Ford
"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."

Reality

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John M. Ford
"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

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John M. Ford
"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."

Friendship

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John M. Ford
"There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't."

People

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John M. Ford
"At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe."

Writing

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John M. Ford
"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."

Adventure

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John M. Ford
"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."

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John M. Ford
"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."

Reading

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