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“Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.”

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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

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“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.”

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“Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of…

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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an…

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“Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.”

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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define…

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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

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“my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in…

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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with…

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So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

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“They were the only three people I'd chosen on my own to love, and they were gone. But still, that morning in Mobay when…

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“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

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I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant,…

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I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

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My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved,…

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It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants…

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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and…

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Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part…

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She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

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The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

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We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad…

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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

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