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"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare."
Love
"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity."
Purpose
"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
Being
"The great break of my literary career was going to law school."
Career
"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."
Legal
"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
Burden
"If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction."
Life
"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."
Literature
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