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Hard times...but God always comes through.
Hard times God Always Come
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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When someone feels like home, you stay there.

Someone Like home Feel Stay there
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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They will never support or do anything nice for you but ALWAYS expect you to support them.

Will never Support Always Expect
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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Most people who show off on social media have NOTHING. Wealthy people usually have nothing to prove to anyone

Social media Nothing Wealthy people Prove
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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Absolutely Curiosity Information Mainstream
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Beginning Bodies Desire Driven
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

Again Children Creative Creative Process
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We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Consider Making Roles Taking
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I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

Loved Once Show Someone
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The people who raised us left Themselves in Us, some in tiny particles and some a whole lot. It would take certain events for those particles to reveal themselves. Be careful my dear, Not all attributes are Yours

People Be careful Reveal Particles
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I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Anything Camper Floor Give
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When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

Doing Ever Get Going
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God first and then God again.
God first God Again
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One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
Bicycle Day Front Neighborhood
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Between Big Books Components
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Everyone has an idea on how to fix the country until they get into power and the opportunity to do so is right in their hands.

Everyone Country Opportunity Hands
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The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

Midwest Such The Tabula
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One day soon, they will write about Us.

Soon One day Write About us
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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Alien Chunk Go Going
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Corrupted Economy Eyes Makes
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Act Last Prayer Reading
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Always Bed Been Closest
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Understanding someone is a rare level of intimacy.

Understanding Rare Level Intimacy
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Sit down and be humble, you don't know what you don't know.

Sit down Humble Be humble Don't know
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Everything interests me.
Everything Interests
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Because Big Connects Everything
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A lot of people are waiting for deliverance in a situation that only requires discipline.

People Deliverance Situation Discipline
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In this life, you must do your best.The rest is not up to you.

Life Your best You
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I like to travel and connect.

Connect Like Travel
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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Choose Determine Itself Never
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Them no Dey look another person fish go soak garri o, the person fit change him mind say him wan use him fish make stew.

Dey Person Garri Change
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All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Brain Come Depend Different
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Every Nigerian has a rare kind of super power or how then do one explain the things we conquer on a daily. The hurdles we overcome regularly without seeing them As one.

Nigerian Super power Conquer Hurdles
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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Love is not love until you share it. Love is not love until you give it away. Sometimes the person you should share it with is yourself but unfortunately most people don’t think they are deserving of their own Love.

Love Share it Give it Yourself
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I would never advocate violence on Trump or anyone.

Advocate Anyone Never Trump
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Anything Liked Only Place
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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Religion and tribalism are the first two to arrive at the meeting when Nigerians gather. There is nothing more divisive than them. Imagine both in one room and To make matters worse, they both want to chair the meeting. Chaos!

Religion Tribalism Nigerian Divisive
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Another Arrange Constraint Design
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Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Code Create Few Lines
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If truth makes you uncomfortable,you are doing something wrong and you know it.
Truth Uncomfortable Wrong
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Could Everything Fit Owned
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I don’t care how beautiful/handsome you look, if your personality sucks, you are damn right UGLY.

Personality Beautiful Handsome Ugly
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