If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book … - Peter David

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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Peter David

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

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I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety. . . except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die. '

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There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

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We're all of us dying. . . from the moment we're born

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If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

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Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

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