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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Pity Heart Slow Learn
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

One Night Dark Face
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Book Dead Perfume People
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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Angry Compassionate Help Less
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Difficult Love Love Is Oneself
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Being End Good In The End
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Give Good Advice Promise
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I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Come Swear Taller
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Being Everyone I Think Important
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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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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Continuous Distant Hear Other
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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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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Young Poet Bird Wing
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Every Every Man Man Man Needs
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Charming Chiefly Falling Forgetting
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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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Better Doomed Future How
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.

Control Myself Flaw Perfection
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Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Dance Packed Ecstasy Moment
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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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And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust.

Die Beloved Dust Beauty
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Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,
Under Ground Brains Eaten
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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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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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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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Experience Fact Helped In Fact
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

Best Does Going Homework
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Day Down How Performs
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Accountability Audit Commission Feel
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Good Government Local Local Government
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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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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

Agent Am Critics Doing
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Cinema Face Human Human Face
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Am Autobiographical Dream Emotions
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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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'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Always Because Circumstance Extreme
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Chapters Opening Genre Read
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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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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Any Around Became Cannot
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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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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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