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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."
"A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles."
"I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me."
"Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind."
"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
"She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more."
"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
"This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump."
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"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
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