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• Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
• In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything…
• We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our…
• Time itself made all things rare.
• When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in…
• A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with…
• Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of…
• ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or…
• You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some…
• There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight…
• Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it…
• Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you…

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