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"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
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"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
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"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
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"The fact is that I loved being in England."
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"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."
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