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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Powerful You Matter Somebody
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Professionalism Experience Accomplish Access
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Write Group Change Consciousness
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Believe Communication Ideas People
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Everything Writing Language Listening
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don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Understand People Art Mind
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative Work Difficult Tests
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art Saved Depression Innocence
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Truth Love Life Heart
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Writers Listening Voices Create
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Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Religion Spiritual Values Corrupted
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Language Truth Lie Precise
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In this life, you have to be your own hero.
Life You Own Hero
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Rebellion Art Death Life
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I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Accept Life Ordinary Shape
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The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Impulse Worship Eradicate Something
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Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Love Strength Reliable Rising
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Fate Hang on Moment Changed
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I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Important Whatever Time Safe
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Power Text Words Work
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Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Intensity Desire Receive Light
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Death Mystery Life Suspenseful
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Success Harmful People Talent
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Wreck Sick Life Health
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Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age Protect Love You
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Children Beautiful Imbeciles Vulgar
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Vitamins Death Bay Deterioration
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent

Fiction Autobiographical Author Talent
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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Give Love Pain Feeling
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Beauty Sex Human being Emerge
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I have no doubt who I am.

I Doubt Who
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Pretty People Worry Aging
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Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Life Land Hope Work
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Like Idea Life Work
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Success Liberation Love Story
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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead

Waves Life Easy Death
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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Age Number Cares
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Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Men Women Sense Use
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We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

Settle Disputes Eliminating Human beings
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Want Country Vote War
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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision

Decides Crisis Life Philosophy
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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible

War Human being Enemies Possible
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Compromise War Controlled Disciplined
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An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Man Flee Evil Overcome
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If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

Crime Victim Fear Judge
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If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

Find Attack Kind Harsh
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Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Political Correct Social Better
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The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave

Slave Freedom Education Discipline
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