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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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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet
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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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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Airplane Bed I Can Long
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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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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Both Course Disdain Extremism
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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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You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Because Body Listen Listening
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Both Certain Church Church And State
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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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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Group Guy Member Nailed
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Alone Better Else Healthy
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If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Arrange Beat Beaten Them
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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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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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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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
Foot Hands Life Step
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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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You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

Bar Candy Chocolate Eating
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Blossoms Fruit Life Like
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Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Climb Dragon Get Going
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Advancing Enhancing Lies Progress
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Caravan Faith Heart Never
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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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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Expresses Never Obvious Seen
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I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

Come Here Honey IThink
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Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
About Did Going Know
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The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

About Average Just Left
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Before Choose Experience Joys
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Am Could English English Language
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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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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Attitude Bring Brings Determined
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Becomes Blessing Curse Every
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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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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 don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Anybody Else Judgment MyOwn
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I want everybody to get money.

Everybody Get Money Want
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