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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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"Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice."
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"One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!"
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"My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones."
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"You made a choice-a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing."
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"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."
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"Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life."
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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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"Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Choice
"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."
Fiction
"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."
Family
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History
"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
Family
"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
Fiction
"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."
Identity
"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
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