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"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."
"Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means."
"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."
"In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities."
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"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage."
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."
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