Some people mocked you if you said that you joined others when your time came. Well, they could laugh, those clever people, but we surely had to hope, and a life without hope of any sort was no life: it was a sky without stars, a landscape of sorrow and emptiness.
タグ: hope

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New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
タグ: wonderful, place, down, new
Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
タグ: joy, day, world, life
As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
タグ: think, political, look, me
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.
タグ: your, always, book, you
The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.
タグ: wider, greater, chances, your
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