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"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."
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"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."
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"Everyone in this world perform their 'duty'. But when one performs the 'duty' and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world."
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"We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society."
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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."
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"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
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"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together."
Time

"I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block."
Writing

"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left."
Romantic

"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
Identity

"Fiction is socially meaningful."
Fiction

"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
World

"It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me."
Law

"My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit."
Literature

"I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer."
Writing

"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had."
Politics
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