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I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. – Peter Carey

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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, thats enough. I cant do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my mornings work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine. – Peter Carey

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its not really any very heady fame. – Peter Carey

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Im sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. – J. D. Salinger

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Every man of courage is a man of his word. – Pierre Corneille

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – E. F. Schumacher

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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. – Benjamin Disraeli

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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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Slump? I aint in no slump… I just aint hitting. – Yogi Berra

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