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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."
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"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
Attention

"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning

"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance

"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time

"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work

"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being

"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience

"Television is a young person's medium."
Television

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
Books

"So far it's 43 books in 25 years."
Books
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