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“I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.”
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“I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.”
Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005. 
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“I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now”
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“You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.”
Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.447, Canongate Books
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“Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.”
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“Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.”
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“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”
Source : "The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
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“I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.”
