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- I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are…
- For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I…
- I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the…
- You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then…
- The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more…
- There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why…
- When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what…
- As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
- Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
- There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
- There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make…
- I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at…
- What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers…
- We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you…
- I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And…
- What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing…
- Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it…
- Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be…
- A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses…
- I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned.…
- I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle