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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Bit Cinema Continuum End
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
A Good Thing America Been Good
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Destroy Gun He Justice
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Between Creator Every Experiences
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Am Course Day Each
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Able Anthropology Astonishment Been
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Adult Any Become Before
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Baby Began Born Compels
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Children Educate Knew Knows
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Behaviors Directly Fragile Humanity
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Different DifferentThings Entirely People
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Mediocre Men Possible Want
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Man Perhaps Role Uncertain
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Again Answer Any City
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Aggressive Constructive Destructive Human
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Age Arbitrary Childhood False
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

After Becomes Before Begins
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Cannot Down Elevator Going
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Carry Demands Dignity Her
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Chair I Love Lazy Look
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Anger Closely Creativity Intertwined
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

Am Arranged Because Being
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Always Desires Dreams Emotions
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

After Being Enough Greatest
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

About Aims Answer Ask
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Against Because Certainly Created
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Afraid Am Any Bird
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Been Had Has Been Healthy
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Bad Good Good Health Happiness
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Cancer Challenge Day Every
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Actress Anyone Intrude Life
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Actress After Between Difficult
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Effort Great Make Miracles
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience Doing England Enjoying
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Alone Care Earned Grown
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

About Behind Great Learnt
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Acting Big Choose Chose
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Great Island Knowledge Little
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Cheeks Day Down Enough
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Remember the sunshine, and walk confidently in the direction of some shade.

Remember Sunshine Walk Confidently
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Ear Instead Kiss Kisses
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One should never get tired of seeking knowledge because the world is dynamic and ever-changing.

Never Tired Knowledge World
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After learning for a period, it is only normal to celebrate your efforts. It is a wonderful thing to start a project and finish it; because not everyone is able to do that.

Learning Normal Effort Project
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It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

Struggle Heart Long Life
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