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"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
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"As with most things in life, a healthy balance will keep us on the right path. To avoid too much eye contact or too little, seek to create a comfortable mix. It is generally encouraged to use more eye contact when you are listening and less when you are speaking."
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"The effect of overworking, we miss sacred moments."
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"Relax, Recreate and Refresh!"
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"There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness."
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"This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!"
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"If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you'll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring."
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"Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!"
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"Work while you can. But avoid overwork, depletion of energy."
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"Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success"
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"When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light."
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"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
Balance


"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
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"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
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"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."
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"I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man."
Man


"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
World


"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
Age


"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
Fiction


"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
War


"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs."
People
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