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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Editor Everything I Write Reads
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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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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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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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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Crime Fight Fighters Fire
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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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Religion is just mind control.
Control Just Mind Religion
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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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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Area Deserted Know Like
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Charge Could Find Him
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Day Every Every Day Feel
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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Else Give Got Just
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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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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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You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

Bar Candy Chocolate Eating
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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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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death Even Life Life And Death
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Acts Idle Infinitely Knowledge
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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Enough Enough Money Fired Get
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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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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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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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Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
Decision Make Right RightDecision
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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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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Horses How Learn Make
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