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"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair."
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"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."


"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."


"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."


"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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