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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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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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"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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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."
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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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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."
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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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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."
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"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation."
Writing
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"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
"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow."
Work
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience
"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."
Life
"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
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