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“When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.”

Arthur Hailey

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Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he…

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I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

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Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful…

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I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

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Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

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“Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it…

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“The same rumour continued: Patroni made love the same way he did everything else – with a long, thin cigar stuck jauntily in the…

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