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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"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
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"Writing is a solitary occupation."
Writing
"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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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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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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"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."
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"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
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"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
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