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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."
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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."
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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."
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"The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany."
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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
Science
"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."
Creativity
"Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one."
Beginning
"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."
Love
"The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69."
Family
"Just write about what bites you and damn the rest."
Inspirational
"There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot."
Plot
"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
Defeat
"Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it."
Coffee
"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."
Gold
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