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"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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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."
People
"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
American
"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
Thought
"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
Wrong
"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
Class
"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."
People
"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
People
"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
Poetry
"The fact is that I loved being in England."
Being
"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
Being
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