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It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.
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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
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Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.


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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.


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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
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When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.


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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.


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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
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Humans are very imaginative animals.


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Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.


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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.


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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.


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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.


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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
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I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
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If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
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