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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

"When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you."
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"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create."

"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."

"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."
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