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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

About Movies Music Release
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

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Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

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One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

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Religion is just mind control.
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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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Awareness without action is worthless.

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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

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You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

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