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"We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions."
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Personal Development
"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
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Personal Development
"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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Personal Development
"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
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Personal Development
"It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined."
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Personal Development
"The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice."
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Personal Development
"Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?""
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Personal Development
"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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Personal Development
"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"
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Personal Development
"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."
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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."
Love
"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
Creativity
"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
Creativity
"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."
Love
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
Reading
"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
Literature
"We are home to each other now."
Love
"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
Experience
"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
Mystery
"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
Work
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