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"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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Personal Development
"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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Personal Development
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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Personal Development
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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Personal Development
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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Personal Development
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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Personal Development
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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Personal Development
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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Personal Development
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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Personal Development
"According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable."
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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
People
"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
Respect
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"She had been expecting me and was ready. She gave a long slow soundless headshake, merciful only in being inarticulate. This mercy didn't prevent its hurling at me the largest finest coldest 'Never!' I had yet, in the course of a life that had known denials, had to take full in the face. I took it and was aware that with the hard blow the tears had come into my eyes. So for a while we sat and looked at each other; after which I slowly rose. I was wondering if some day she would accept me; but this was not what I brought out. I said as I smoothed my hat: 'I know what to think then. It's nothing!"
Social
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Money
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
Complexity
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
Happiness
"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
Irony
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