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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Abortion American Any Both
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Leadership Wisdom Health
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Afghanistan Come Emancipation Gradually
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Life Courage Queens
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Peace Form Cases
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Important Answer Formal
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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

Soccer Football Game
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Accusing Always Create Finds
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Actual Avoided Books Electronic
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Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

After Before Blown Either
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Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Thinking Phones Talking
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream
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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

Connections Find Human Meaning
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Alone Better Else Healthy
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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Always do whatever's next.

Always Next Whatever
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Almost Boring Fear Pathological
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Concealing Language Large Tool
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Afghan Been Few Group
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Cynical Disappointed Every Idealist
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Among Desires Dreamer Dreams
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You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

About Fewer Good Know
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The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Accept Answers Myself Only
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Bad Bad Girls Because Girl
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Alone Little Low Our
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Asked Bookstore Defeat Me
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
About Bible Dawned Exam
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Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Game Life Play Realize
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Am Catholic Church Committed
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I'm really into Bam Margera. I've met him twice now. He's, like, crazy.
Crazy He Him Like
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You really don't find too many good people. You really don't. Keep them around.

Around Find Good Good People
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Bloom Expect Flowers Heart
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Alms Better Cannot Distaste
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I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
Brothers Going Got Jackson
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Art Concealed Obvious Step
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As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

Always Artist Come Forget
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Bliss Complete Created Eternal
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Attain All Desire Spirits
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