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"The fact is that I loved being in England."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
People
"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
Thought
"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
People
"The fact is that I loved being in England."
Being
"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 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
"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've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
Poetry
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