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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Dan Brown

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

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Dan Brown

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Irvine Welsh

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Dan Brown

The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

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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.

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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

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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.

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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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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.

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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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.

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

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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.

Margaret Mead

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

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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.

Margaret Mead

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

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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.

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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