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"You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more."
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"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
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"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."
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"As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!"
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"The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices...but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all."
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"Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas-that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!"
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"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."
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"We are always - always- in choice."
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"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them."
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"I'm going to do things when they are right for me."
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"As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
People
"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
Question
"Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways."
Success
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
Complexity
"And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is, Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it."
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"And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun."
Literature
"I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey."
Humor
"I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on."
Reading
"In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!"
Self
"Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this."
Sports
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