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You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.
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The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
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Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
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In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
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If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
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It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
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I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.
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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.
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Generally, I move in the direction of art.
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To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.