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If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

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Colm Toibin

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

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Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

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