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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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"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
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"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."
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"I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next."
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"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."
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"You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute."
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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."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
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"I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"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."
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"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
Life
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
Style
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
Personality
"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
Opportunity
"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
Money
"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
People
"My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert."
Family
"Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem."
Literature
"What genre it falls under is only of interest later."
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"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
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