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"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
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"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
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"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
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"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
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"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
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"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."
Conflict
"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."
Heart
"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."
Fiction
"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another."
Lie
"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives."
Sense
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
Balance
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
War
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention."
Chaos
"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
Age
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