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"The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe."
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"The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe."
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"Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family."
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"You were baptized?""My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in."
Religion
"I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration."
Motivational
"It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees-knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying."
Religion
"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."
Success
"I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind."
Psychology
"My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you."
Politics
"Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment."
Strategy
"Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going."
Writing
"I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire."
Emotion
"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Music
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