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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
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"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
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Personal Development
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
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Personal Development
"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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Personal Development
"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
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Personal Development
"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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Personal Development
"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."
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Personal Development
"We don't need eyes to judge people's beauty, but unfortunately we judge them as we see."
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Personal Development
"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."
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Personal Development
"Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualities of a dream. A different sphere of reality, where - at a special time and place - imagination had been set free."
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Personal Development
"With your mind alert and your eyes wide open, you will be better able to assess your space and your place for optimizing exchanges and your communication impressions."
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"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
Darkness
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
Time
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
World
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
War
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
Perception
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
Expression
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
Time
"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."
Home
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
Research
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