"Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours."

-- Robert Harris

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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.”

Source : c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)
“I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.”
“People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”
“The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.”
“There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.”

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“Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.”
“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”

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