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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."


"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."


"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."


"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."


"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."


"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."


"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."


"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."
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