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“I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.”
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“Failure's a natural part of life.”
Source : "Life and taxes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2006. 
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“Golf is tougher than my first wife.”
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“there's plenty of blame to go around.”
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“I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . . It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.”
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“I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.”
Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.5, Heinemann
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“You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.”
