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• Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty.

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  Art, Government, Two

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• Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

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  Writing, People, Breaking Down

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• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

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  Book, Writing, Knowing

  "Leon Uris" by Eric Homberger, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2003.

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• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

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  Memories, Men, Matter

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

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  Writing, Trying, Generations

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• I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

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  Struggle, Inspiration, Marine

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• There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

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  Understanding, Different, Lines

  Leon Uris (1970). “QB VII”

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• Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

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  Crazy, Writing, Mad

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

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  Thinking, Years, Two

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• English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it

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  Writing, Important, Example

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• I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

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  Writing, Thinking, Agony

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• I essentially write for myself.

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  Writing

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• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

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  Knowing, Firsts, Projects

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• I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

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  Jockeys, Honest, Heavy

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• It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.

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  Home, Coming Home, Ends

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

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  Easter, People, Rising

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• On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

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  Book, Borders, Looks

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• There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

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  Men, Names, Tears

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

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  Tough, Used, Advantage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

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  People, Trying, Ends

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• I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

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  Book, Writing, Marine

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• You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

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  Writing, People, Events

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• Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built

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  Book, Writing, Important

  "Leon Uris" by Eric Homberger, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2003.

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• So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

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  Writing, Difficult, Position

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