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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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Personal Development

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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Personal Development

"The value of time is immeasurable."
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Personal Development

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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Personal Development

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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Personal Development

"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."
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Personal Development

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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Personal Development

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
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Personal Development

"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."
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Personal Development

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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Personal Development
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
Creativity

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
Reflection

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
Politics

"Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble."
Knowledge

"A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind."
Mortality

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
Work

"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."
Writing

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
Writing

"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."
Gender

"When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London."
Psychology
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