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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."
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Personal Development
"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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Personal Development
"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."
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Personal Development
"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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Personal Development
"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
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Personal Development
"Character is what can do without success."
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Personal Development
"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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Personal Development
"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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Personal Development
"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
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Personal Development
"Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people."
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"It was the most romantic plane ever made."
Aviation
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"Culture clash is terrific drama."
Cultural
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
Character
"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."
Writing
"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
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