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Good people don’t spend their time being good.

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Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
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All Abot Bad Dog Good Lawn Move People Play Spend Think Time
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Bright Consolation Novel People Sophisticated What Write
Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Banker Blissful Kind Martyrs Peasant Show Starve Wept While Wise
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Always Work Writer
When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Day Do Gonna Page Start Two Write
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Die Love Today Tomorrow
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Crank Currency Paper Press Printing Ream State Treasure
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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Audience Book Expect Have Like Lot People Read
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Character Once Tell Write
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
On the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
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Came Country Frontier Newspaper Next Radio Telephone Tomorrow Trust
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Horror Inflict Reader
I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really Writer
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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Brain Censorship Head Office Person Serious Stick Tell Very
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Book Chase Country Else Novel Reality Somebody

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