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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
Fiction
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Crime
"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
People
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing."
Freedom
"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
Family
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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."
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Personal Development
"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."
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Personal Development
"You don't have to allow the drama and events of the economy, others people's lives, and external circumstances to limit your potential and rob you of the life you deserve."
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Personal Development
"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."
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Personal Development
"I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."
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Personal Development
"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
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Personal Development
"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."
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Personal Development
"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."
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Personal Development
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
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Personal Development
"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."
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Personal Development
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