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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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Structure
Disciplines
Internal
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I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
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Edinburgh
Manhattan
Nationality
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Newspapers
Photographs
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Finished
Non Fiction
Reading
Plane
Second
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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Arbitrary
Born
Capricious
Ruthless
Shabby
Mine
Morons
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I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
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Succeed
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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Block
Temperature
Experienced
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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Eighteen
Fake
Selling
Twenty One
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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Decades
Lessons
University
Product
Spent
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Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
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Topics
Wealth
Time Good World
Label
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I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
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Bills
Hospitals
Nervous
Psychiatric
Rough
Life Mother Father
Troubled
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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Effects
Fatigue
Half
Limbs
Multiple Sclerosis
Nurse
Single
Treatment
Working Life
Case
Cut
Working
Mentioned
Ms
Neurological
None
Weakened
Websites
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Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.
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Journalist
Lawyer
Spine
Opposite
Assistant
Cadet
Editor
Literary
Film And Tv
Magazine
Ms
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I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters. When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.
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Beach
Memories
Swimming
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