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"The fact is that I loved being in England."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
Thought
"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
Wrong
"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."
People
"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
People
"The fact is that I loved being in England."
Being
"Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man."
Culture
"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer."
Time
"I hate to be categorized."
Hate
"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."
Life
"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
Government
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