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"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it."
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"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
Family
"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
Winning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
Books
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
Attention
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."
Life
"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
Books
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