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1. "But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes." ~ Deborah Moggach
2. "The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them." ~ Deborah Moggach
3. "Remove the Curtain of your Heart and see the Beloved sitting inside yourself. Close your Ears to the Outside and hear the Cosmic Sound going on within you. Intro to Part 2, Chapter 1. Credit given to Mira, poet-saint of Rajastan." ~ Deborah Moggach
4. "After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear away the wreckage. They swarm around like ants whose anthill has been scuffed; how doggedly they rebuild their lives." ~ Deborah Moggach
5. "Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom. Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita." ~ Deborah Moggach
6. "Remember you are everything, or you are nothing. If you are everything, then your heart is so big it can hold all of humanity within itself, you have no jealousy or narrowness. You are in the heart of every creature and every creature is in your heart. There is only bliss. Intro to Part 2, Chapter 4. Credit given to Swami Purna." ~ Deborah Moggach
7. "Sophia will not come. How mad he is to imagine, for a moment, that she might. Why should she risk everything for him? He can offer her nothing, only love." ~ Deborah Moggach
8. "It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view." ~ Deborah Moggach
9. "Douglas Ainslie: Look. Can you hear yourself? Can you? Do you have any idea what a terrible person you have become? All you give out is this endless negativity, a refusal to see any kind of light and joy, even when it's staring you in the face, and a desperate need to squash any sign of happiness in me or... or... or... anyone else. It's a wonder that I don't fling myself at the first kind word or gesture that comes my way, but I don't, ou... ou... ou... out of some sense of dried-up loyalty and respect, neither of which I ever bloody get in return.Jean, his wife: [long pause] I checked my emails. There's one from Laura." ~ Deborah Moggach
10. "Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this." ~ Deborah Moggach
11. "You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway." ~ Deborah Moggach
12. "You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos." ~ Deborah Moggach
13. "A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on." ~ Deborah Moggach
14. "Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk." ~ Deborah Moggach
15. "All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world." ~ Deborah Moggach
16. "I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's." ~ Deborah Moggach
17. "I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress." ~ Deborah Moggach
18. "I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window." ~ Deborah Moggach
19. "I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway." ~ Deborah Moggach
20. "I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less." ~ Deborah Moggach
21. "I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden." ~ Deborah Moggach
22. "I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going." ~ Deborah Moggach
23. "I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy." ~ Deborah Moggach
24. "It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything." ~ Deborah Moggach
25. "Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet." ~ Deborah Moggach
26. "My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there." ~ Deborah Moggach
27. "Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand." ~ Deborah Moggach
28. "One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills." ~ Deborah Moggach
29. "Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key." ~ Deborah Moggach
30. "The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them." ~ Deborah Moggach
31. "'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds." ~ Deborah Moggach

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Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disappeared into the precincts of that hellish place. What do you find to say to a doctor and a humanitarian who has been gutted by the image of a starving rat being introduced to his daughter's genitalia? Like hell itself the school was endorsed and blessed by priests, in case any stray consciences needed to be stilled."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

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