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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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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
Goal Unrealistic Just Learned
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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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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Become Believe Lazy Hate
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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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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Always Around Different Different Places
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

Future Issue Consider Issues
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

Became Becoming Created Phenomenon
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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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I just want to get on and tell stories.
Get Just Stories Tell
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Aside Feminism Give Out
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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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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Changing Feminism Getting Hard
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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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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

Although Believing Cheat Con
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

About Circumstances Difficult Grew
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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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 really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Believe Fine Direction Feel
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Facebook Get Home I Think
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Nutrition Cream Books Taste
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

Love More Power Hate
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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

Content Every I Think Offers
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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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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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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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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Bit Cinema Continuum End
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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Different More Similar Much
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Destroy Gun He Justice
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Between Creator Every Experiences
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Doubt Part Religion Religious
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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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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Disciple Teacher You
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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Accurate AccurateInformation Add Believe
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Adult Any Become Before
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Before Censored Elders First
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Children Educate Knew Knows
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Behaviors Directly Fragile Humanity
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Accept Evil Good Label
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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Come Having Home Human
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Adult Children Depends Grow
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Absolutely Always Else Everyone
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Destroy Environment Society
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Asked Before Box Ever
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