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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
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“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”
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“Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.”
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“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”
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“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009. 
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“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
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“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”
Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams
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“All of my novels are democracies.”
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“There's never a false note in a Berg novel.”
