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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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Personal Development
"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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Personal Development
"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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Personal Development
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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Personal Development
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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Personal Development
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."
People
"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
Reason
"It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings."
Love
"I've spent my life supporting myself."
Life
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
Life
"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."
Love
"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
Literature
"I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now."
People
"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
Perception
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
Photography
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