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"I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!"
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"I don't want to finish reading the book."
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"I love books."
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"I am bold as a lion."
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"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."
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"Life is your greatest asset."
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"Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising."
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"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."
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"Our life is a one way journey, we can never go back."
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"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."
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"If have nothing but life, I have everything."
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"I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about."
Love
"But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth."
Truth
"I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough."
Thought
"What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place."
Writing
"First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him."
Literature
"But I never listen to music while I'm writing."
Music
"I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!"
Life
"No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered."
Writing
"My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish."
Life
"What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man."
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