"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them."

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"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"I am born to win."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."

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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

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"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."

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"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."

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"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."

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"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."

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"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."

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"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."

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"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them."

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"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."

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