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Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.

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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Fiction, Honest, Thinking, Truth, Writing

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Enough, Literature, Realize, Realizing, Things, Writing

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

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And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

Damned, Live, Love You, Names, Order

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Largely, Mysteries, Pace, Pieces, Progress, Undocumented
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