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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will t

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. – Michael Ondaatje

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Thats Anils path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. – Michael Ondaatje

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Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. – Terry Prachett

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If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end. – Jennifer Connelly

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In every tyrants heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. – Aeschylus

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I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already. – Helen Fielding

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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. – Robert Frost

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