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• As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
• The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
• When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
• The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance…
• Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds…
• A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
• I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
• There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off…

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