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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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"Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control."
"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it."
"Not all questions can be answered."
"I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined."
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
"I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indifferent chaos in the hands of wanton boys."
"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."
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"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."
"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."
"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."
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
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