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• That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.
• The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and…
• Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire…
• You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.
• You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
• Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time…
• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended…
• History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
• I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique,…
• I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to…
• So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
• I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

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