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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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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 know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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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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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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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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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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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Also Betray Else Somebody
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Baby Began Born Compels
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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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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

Am Chaotic Firm I Am
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Love is so much better when you're not married.

Better Love LoveIs Married
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Bloody Was Tempered Young
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Enemies Know Shall Slipping
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Anyone Been Discuss Done
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

About Arrangement Dying Extremely
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Become Designed Kiss Lovely
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Actions He His Know
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.
Praying Happenings Ifs Cease
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When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

Distance Enemy Blame Shame
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Your destiny is in your hands. Helpers will come when you have tried your bit.
Destiny Hands Helpers Come
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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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When you are one dimensional you are common. When you become multidimensional you become rare. When you become rare, you are in high demand.

Dimensional Common Multidimensional
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Identity is a funny thing, just when you think you have defined yourself. There is always another chapter or another challenge. It is all about getting out of your comfort zone. Until you do you’ll never know what you are capable of.

Identity Funny Defined Comfort-zone
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Looking back isn’t going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do. When you look in the mirror today, say out loud, “I’m not the man I used to be.

Looking Back Help Forward
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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Brave Champagne Cowards Else
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When you humbly know who you are, you ooze self confidence…It’s powerful.

Humbly Self-confidence Powerful
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Let’s not make success to wear us the mask of forgetting the true ones who loved us and prayed for us when we were nothing.
Success Wear Mask Loved
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It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

Go Life Rock Side
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Agree Ear Fails Heart
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Some people have that ability to command blind following, regardless of what they do or don't do. Even when they fart, their followers will say it is the latest perfume.

Ability Command Blind Following
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You don't need to start with an insult when you disagree, no matter how vehemently.
Need Start Insult Disagree
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When Your heart desire meet God's will efficacy of prayers is inevitable

When Heart Desire Heart Desire
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Worship is when we give God His breath back
Giving Worship Breaths God
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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

Achieve Agreeing Agreement Collective
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Alight Always Beyond Butterfly
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The problems in life come when we are sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Problems Life Sowing Reap
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When you are the best, remember, you did not choose yourself, and that’s what makes you a star.
Best Member You Makes
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Many people waste their time, trying to act when they know very well that they can’t act, but they stay due to the beaming benefit.

People Waste Time Act
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Marriage is a not a step to be taken because other people are taking it. …It is something you do when you are ready.
Marriage Step People Ready
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Luck is when skill meets opportunity.

Luck Skill Meets Opportunity
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Becomes Being Frontier Longer
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Success occurs when your goals are bigger than your excuses. Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.

Success Occurs Goals Bigger than
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When you stop taking things personally and start looking at them with logic, you have reached a dangerous level of freedom and unlimited happiness.
Stop Things Personally Logic
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We all have TWO lives, the second one starts when we realize we only have just ONE!

Two lives Start Realize One
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Friend Times Life Few
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Animals Cannot Day Domesticated
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