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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"
"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."
"You can be your own boss."
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
"Only God's principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."
"It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another."
"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
"I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments."
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