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"Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time."
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"Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities."
"We were just looking at maps..."
"Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time."
"Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings."
"When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom."
"Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and living a life of adventure. Be courageous, be brave. A whole life is out there just waiting to be lived. Don't wait until it is too late. Seize the opportunity and seize the day. Don't allow yourself to get caught in regret by limiting yourself and your life. Life passes by very quickly. Make the most of every day!"
"When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously."
"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
"Marco's answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan's head. That is to say, between the two of them it did not matter whether questions and solutions were uttered aloud or whether each of the two went on pondering in silence. In fact, they were silent, their eyes half-closed, reclining on cushions, swaying in hammocks, smoking long amber pipes.Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
"I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion."
"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."
"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
"My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past."
"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
"You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list."
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