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If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.
Cannot Concentrate Happy You
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I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

Always Big Get Hot
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I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Am Doing Fast I Am
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Advantage Danger Fear Fears
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Care Don't Care Else Everyone
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

Artist Guy Just Myself
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Learning Much Pillars Seeing
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It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Also Be Strong Course Day
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People only have so much attention.

Attention Much Much Attention Only
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Any Course Had Jobs
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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
Funny I Think Kid Me
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

After Day Easy Every
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Author Fortunate His Lifetime
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I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Another Books Five Four
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There is moderation even in excess.

Even Excess Moderation
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Concentration Happiest Life My Life
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Always Boring Dark Most
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Both Center Divine Human
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Lie Life Moderation Pleasures
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Character Sure Voice
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fear Most New NewWord
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Agree Agreeable Idea Me
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Area Boston Harvard Never
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Agents Circumstances Creature Creatures
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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Believe Great Heroes Heroic
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Close Effects Framing Much
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Characteristics Chief Mob Quickness
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Silence is the mother of truth.
Mother Silence Truth
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
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A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Mindless Mob Often Said
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

End Ever First Ignorance
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

About Almost Author Bad
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Opportunity Ready Secret Success
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