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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Board Easy God Gods
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Nas
Around Bass Big Definitely
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Nas
Anymore Credit Even Expectations
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

After Depart Ever Eye
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

About Basic Bore Endless
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Because Comics Easy Election
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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

As Far As Becoming Concerned Entire
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Drink Genuinely Happy He
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

About Maybe Started Writing
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I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Author I Think Lazy Myself
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Common Hate Hates Likes
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Because Fans Get Nice
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Always Before Brighter Just
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief Defined Faith Illogical
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being Between Bored Daydreaming
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Also Democracy Form Worship
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I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Always Last Look Lost
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

About Baseball English Italian
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
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Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Bonus Chemical Dogs Eat
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Cigarette Never Nine Smoked
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Area Children Drop Go
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Grow Grows Hard Heart
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
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Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas

Helplessness Prayer Calls Heart
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Always Been Children Clothes
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Baptism Best Better Campaign
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Articles By The Time Candidates Day
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Any Best Honestly Matter
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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Attitude Dizzy Height Climb
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The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

America Between Biggest Biggest Difference
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Big Pleasures Relish Small
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Always Asleep Children Even
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Activity Children Literate Make
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I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
Bad Book Children Such A Thing
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Allowing Building Empathy Function
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Been Books Cause Had
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My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Best Countries Fantasy Fiction
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Any Elements Every God
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Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.

Christ Compare God Grace
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Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

Basis Even Fails God
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