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• On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We…
• Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
• I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which…
• Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone…
• Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life.…
• It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
• I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
• I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding…

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