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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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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. – Aaron Hill

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A brave arm makes a short sword long. – Author Unknown

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It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it. – Willy Brandt

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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. – Hermann Hesse

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If you don’t quote yourself, nobody else will. And you can quote me on that. – Scott Ginsberg, www.hellomynameisscott.com

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