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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."
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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."
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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."
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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."
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"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."
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"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."
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"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."
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"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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"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."
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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."
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"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."
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"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
"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."
Now
"Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction."
Fiction
"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
"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
"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
"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
"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."
Writing
"There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't."
People
"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues."
Future
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