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When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Cannot Chance Consumption Mindful
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Affairs Human Human Affairs Serious
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Abolish Catastrophe Comfort Equivalent
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Person Publishes Book Appears
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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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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently Beautiful Kind Intelligent
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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 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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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Born Woman Distressed 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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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Brown Generic Like Moral
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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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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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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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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 have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

Always Believed I Think Key
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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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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
About Day Death Gone
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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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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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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Agency Everything Fascinated Happens
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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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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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Critique Early Either Learned
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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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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Almost Culture Dead Happening
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Conceal About Reader Tell
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

Controlled English Funk Got
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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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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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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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Become Chickens Did Health
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Also Children Only Parents
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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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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Because Believe Combat Females
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Children Device Educated Male
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Cannot Down Elevator Going
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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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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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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

Berlin Created Egg Even
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
Done Get Go Myself
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Love is so much better when you're not married.

Better Love LoveIs Married
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Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

Against Aging Creativity Demons
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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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