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I think that a lot of us, whe...

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

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When I'm writing books, somet...

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

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I do think that there is such...

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

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Airport security exists to gu...

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

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Out-of-step intellectuals lik...

Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

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It is often said by religious...

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

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There was a series called 'Ga...

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

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The answer to religion is not...

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

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The thing that always attract...

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

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Doris Lessing really doesn't ...

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

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Human beings, you see, do abs...

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' w...

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

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Whenever I write something, I...

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

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We cannot allow religious hoo...

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

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I think that England made a v...

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

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Someone asked me if I was afr...

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

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I have always thought, the se...

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

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One of the things I've learnt...

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

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I have had many more close wo...

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

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I don't know what to say abou...

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....