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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Fame Give Give Me Life
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Bit Collection Collector Conversation
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Age Gradually Old Old Age
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Demon Done First First Time
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Begins Day Dead Just
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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
Away Forgot Game Hurt
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Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Alienate Artists Been Big
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I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

Admire Bothers Deeply Edges
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Deer Highest Leaps Wounded
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It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Album Easy Full Go
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Am Experience Feel Horribly
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I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

Away Demographic Get Gonna
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Delightful Rare Tell Truth
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Develop Hard Hard Times Muscles
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Come Complete Control Deserve
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The brain is wider than the sky.

Brain Sky Than Wider
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All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Artists Everybody Fashion Favorite
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

Always Brothers Doing Games
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Bad By The Time Did Get
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Breath Creation Death Initial
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Eldest Harm Mother Nature
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter
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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy Half More People
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Arab Spring Bit Country
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Arise Between Day Desire
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Accolades Anyone Internal Journey
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

Ballot Believe Box Change
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Begins Creation Creatures Economics
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because Change Deeds Fail
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