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"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."
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"It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts."
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"Attitude determines how the "inner battle" is won."
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"True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!"
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"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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"Remember that your attitude towards life determines life's attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better."
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"Since your mindset can make you or break you, how is it going? Is it representing you well or does it need a complete overhaul?"
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"If you want to fly high and go amazing places, your attitude is crucial."
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"He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks."
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"With positive mindset you can overcome madness."
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"A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism."
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"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
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"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
Reading
"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."
People
"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."
Religion
"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."
Attitude
"I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years."
Time
"My father was very outwardly religious."
Family
"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity."
Cultural
"I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor."
Love
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
Time
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