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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Against Courage Final Hell
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Does Made Often Time
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Books I Tried Slippery Tell
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Act Belief Believer Held
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Come Ever First Good
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Like People Ready Refuse
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Angry Father Him Like
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Brightest Cannot Famous Famous People
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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Been Even Good Lives
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We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

About America Considered Dwell
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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Agree Defend Injustice People
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Any Costs Dramatic Failure
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
End Habits Hopes Out
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God forgives those who invent what they need.

Forgives God Invent Need
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You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lose Manners Poor You
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Everything Makes Man Stand
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Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

Each Lonelier Lonely Make
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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Act Best Confidence How
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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Around Bible Earth Eat
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When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Available Dressing Energy Like
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Absolute Catastrophic End Except
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
Answer Only Question You
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Cannot Cry Dead Duty
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Desire Heart High How
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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Bad Bad Rap Escape Escapist
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Biotechnology Impact Interested Live
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Adjustment Different Different Kinds Follows
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Book Discovering Me More
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

All My Work Care Draw Experience
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Began Career Isolated Place
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Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
About Airport Anxiety Dreams
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Average husband Enjoys Home
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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Task Speeding up Human population
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Every man Sees World Fellows
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Love Suppressed Hate
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Creation Single world Fragment Chaos
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I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

Make Film Children Good
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Modern life Shallow Developers Go bankupt
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Life is a winking light in the darkness

Life Winking Darkness
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

Make movies Tell Despair Run away
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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

Always believe No matter Nothing Fear
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Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

Do everything Hand Computer
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

We live Cheaper Buy
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Do believe Power Story Important role
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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Hatred Life Worth living Possible
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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

Greatness Mind Determined Suffering
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Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other... Then fade away

Our lives Wind Like sounds Resonate
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