"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."

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"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."

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"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."

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"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."

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"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."

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"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."

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"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."

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"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."

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"Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present."

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