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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."
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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"I rather like getting away from fiction."
Fiction
"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
Family
"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."
Change
"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
Art
"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."
Family
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past
"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."
Choice
"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."
Life
"The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction."
Time
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