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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."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention."
Chaos
"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
Money
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
Truth
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."
Heaven
"I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man."
Man
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
Marriage
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
Fiction
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
War
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
War
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