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" I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. "

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" I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me. "

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" I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. "

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" Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. "

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" If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. "

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" When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. "

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" Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "

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" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "