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One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.
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A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.
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Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.
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At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
