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"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."
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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

"Heart is really just forgetting to fail."
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"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."


"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."


"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."


"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs."


"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."


"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."


"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
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