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I would blossom if I were a rose.
Blossom Rose
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Anything Being Holy Made
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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
Think Woman Roots Passion
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

Childhood Kingdom Dies
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But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

You Young Sweet Fair
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I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.

Fingers Alive Rain
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But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!

Roaring Fire Warmth Boiling
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Absolute Another Body Human
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Anywhere Get Marriage Public
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Always Came I Came Politics
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Being Difference Everything More
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Anywhere Go Hate Travel
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

About Achieving Bad Caused
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

Actually Directed Doer Great
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Addition Begin Code Door
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Kind Mysticism Writing There
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

God Religion Life Power
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Any Chapter Doing Every
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Always Around Different Different Places
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

Come Exotic Mad Place
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

Behind Charge Everything Know
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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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.'

Bigger Intellectual Look Something
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

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

Am Even I Am Immersed
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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.

Love More Power Hate
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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.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Different More Similar Much
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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.

Destroy Gun He Justice
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Doubt Part Religion Religious
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Because Full How Life
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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.

Altogether Childbirth Could Different
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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.

Children Educate Knew Knows
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Different DifferentThings Entirely People
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Come Having Home Human
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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Else Go Nowhere
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Certain Characters Cutting Feet
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Any Based Behavior Cowardly
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Again Answer Any City
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Carry Demands Dignity Her
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Alive Always Ask Did
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Anger Closely Creativity Intertwined
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Affair Break Depression Father
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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