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"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
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"The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego."
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"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."
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"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."
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"To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back."
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"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
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"The burden which is well borne becomes light."
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"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
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"Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully."
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"The thing that I'm most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me."
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"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
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"The great break of my literary career was going to law school."
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"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity."
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"On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare."
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"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."
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"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
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"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."
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"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
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"If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction."
Life
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