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"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."
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"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."
"Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?"
"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."
"What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?"
"Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word."
"The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe."
"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"
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"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
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