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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
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"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
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"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning

"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance

"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
Books

"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time

"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books

"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel

"Writing is a solitary occupation."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience
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