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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Born Woman Distressed Needs
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Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me
Lay Me Long-grass Eyes
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The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own.

Undercurrent Thought Seek You
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Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

Searching Heart Sorrow Words
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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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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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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Cricket Game Match Pressure
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Cricket Depend Future Goes
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Accountability Audit Commission Feel
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Hearts Minds People Terrorism
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

Hearts Minds Muslim Muslim World
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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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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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Kind Mysticism Writing There
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Army Darkness Find Intellect
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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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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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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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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Big Box Dive Each
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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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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.

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

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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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.

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

Change ChangeTheWorld Could Ever
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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'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Chair I Love Lazy Look
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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

After Being Enough Greatest
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Almost Artist Considers Ego
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Alone Care Earned Grown
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art Common Find Greatness
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

About Behind Great Learnt
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Discovered Everything Kindness Life
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It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

Struggle Heart Long Life
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No matter your level, everyone finds prominence.

Matter Level Everyone Prominence
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No matter the situation, find time to reflect on the good things God has done…
Matter Situation Reflect God
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It is impossible for God to put us with wild animals and not expect us to find a way to tame them all, learn to cohabit.

Impossible God Put Wild-animals
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South Africa is not our problem, we are. Every black man is tribal, and when it suits us. There is NO Nigerian that hasn’t suffered some kind of discrimination due to tribe.”

Problem Black-man Tribal
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How much do you believe in yourself? How much do you believe in what you carry on the inside? This is where success starts from. Believe in yourself, let it become a state of mind. Everything is foreign.

How-much Believe Yourself
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Fantasy is what the world desires. It appeals to the mind. Truth is, as good as it might be and soothing. Reality is what we need in the world today.

Fantasy World-desires Mind Truth
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What I have come to understand lately is, the greatest enemy or hindrance to your progress is your past achievement. If your past achievement, is the best you think you could ever become, then you will never grow.

Understand Enemy Hindrance Progress
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The problem with hanging on to the past is. You keep your gaze and focus behind. You never see what is coming. Keep your focus on the present. Keeping looking in front of you. That way you won’t loose sight of the greatness ahead of you. The future is brighter.

Problem Hanging Past Gaze
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Sometimes the best way to find something is to quit looking for it. Sometimes you just need to be quiet and listen. Most times we are so occupied and so anxious and miss it.

Sometimes Best Way Quiet
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Change. We are more likely to remain in familiar bondage,than try foreign liberty. The average mind,does not want to dare anything, that seems unfamiliar. But you never what you are capable of until you try. What will you do differently today

Change Familiar Bondage Foreign
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Anything Business Except Forgive
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Chooses Every Fill He
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