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"He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch."
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"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
Success
"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."
Spirit
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
Thought
"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."
Truth
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
Life
"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
Truth
"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
Wisdom
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Thought
"Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are."
Life
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
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"An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now."
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"...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty."
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Personal Development
"Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?"
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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
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Personal Development
"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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Personal Development
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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Personal Development
"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
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Personal Development
"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."
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Personal Development
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
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Personal Development
"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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