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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."
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"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."
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"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."
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"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."
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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
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"Fear attracts attack."
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"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
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"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."
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"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
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"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
Fear
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
People
"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
World
"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
Fiction
"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
Woman
"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."
Woman
"Reading is my greatest luxury."
Luxury
"I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now."
Men
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