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• ‟ If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

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• ‟ I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

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• ‟ If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

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• ‟ I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

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• ‟ I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.

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• ‟ Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

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• ‟ I don't dislike people; I love people.

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• ‟ I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

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• ‟ I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

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