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- I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're…
- In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
- On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces…
- I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are…
- I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.
- Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .
- There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that…
- …words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which…
- You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.
- Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you…
- Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide