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“I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 
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“You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging… They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.”
Source : "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.
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“Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.”
Source : "Sarah Waters's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.
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“It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.”
Source : "Living without 'isms'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
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“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.”
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“Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.”
Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”
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“I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.”
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“I have never gotten into the label thing.”
