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I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

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The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and...more

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The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it ...more

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I would agree with your statement that many of my protagonists are outsiders. I wonder if we all are, and even people who don't think they are, and th...more

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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

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Survival often demands our courage.

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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you f...more

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Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuff...more

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Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can ...more

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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, obo...more

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Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

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...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

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Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determi...more

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But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey...more