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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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"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."
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"The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading."
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"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"
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"Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation."
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"Who can tell when troubles may come?"
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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"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?"
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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!"
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"We are not certain we are never certain."
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"Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is, insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps, all Crosswords have a solution, and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense."
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"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"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."
Life
"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."
Creativity
"Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker."
Care
"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
Writing
"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."
Want
"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."
Want
"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
Discipline
"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."
Knowledge
"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
Education
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