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- The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will…
- Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
- Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live…
- I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
- Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
- I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting,…
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