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"You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything."
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"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."

"Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said."

"I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there."

"The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe."

"Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present."

"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."

"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."

"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"
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"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"


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"But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying "Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. "Um, I can't find the can opener. "Apparently. "There's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight. "Apparently. "Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket. "Apparently."


"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."


"And as much as I wanted to, I knew I couldn't turn around, that to look at her directly was to violate the laws of her world and mine; she had come to me the only way she could, and our eyes met in the glass for a long still moment; but just as she seemed about to speak - with what seemed a combination of amusement, affection, exasperation - a vapor rolled between us and I woke up."


"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."


"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."


"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
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