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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Bear Head Heart How
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Above Any Been Better
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Am Book Drama Film
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Am Call Corrupt Down
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Country Important More People
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Decided Something Try Fruition
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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Beauty Born Connection Earth
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Also Child Come Deep
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Best How Love Offer
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Familiar Ground Spoke Level
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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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'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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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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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Bigger Intellectual Look Something
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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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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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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Also Betray Else Somebody
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Because Full How Life
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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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I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

Else Happens Know Me
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
Fact Films Longer Make
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There is something joyous about not talking.

About Joyous Not Talking Something
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Convictions Love Love Is Man
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Remember the sunshine, and walk confidently in the direction of some shade.

Remember Sunshine Walk Confidently
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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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Royalties comes with some etiquette so also, the wisdom of a King is important…Learn them and observe them…

Royalty Etiquette Wisdom King
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Life is all about risks. You try some, win some and lose some. How you handle your losses determines the possible outcome of your tomorrow win…
Life Risk Lose Win
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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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You need some people in your life. The ones who will look at you, and tell you the plain and honest truth no matter how it hurts.

People Life Need Honest
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Take that step, if you fail, you try again. Some people prefer familiar bondage to foreign freedom. Get out of your own way.

Take Step Fail Freedom
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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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I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Charm Grace Left Life
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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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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Artistic Big Big Impact Control
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Altogether Beyond Committing Entertain
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If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?

Am Because Gets Helped
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It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.

Because Maria Never Question
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