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" In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. "

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" Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. "

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" Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention. "

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" Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. "

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" It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone. "

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" I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful. "

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" From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.' "

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