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"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
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"To stupid or what???I really don't get it... why do you agree always!?Don't you have an opinion... so far I have onion with prefix "Op" and what somehow from nowhere a prefix and suffix I build a word called itself an a "opinion"..."
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"Plato was a bore."
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"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."
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"I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot."
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"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
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"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
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"In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever."
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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
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"The world is governed by opinion."
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"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
Past
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
War
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
Research
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
Home
"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
Creativity
"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
Expression
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
Time
"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."
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