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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"
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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
"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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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"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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Personal Development
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."
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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity."
Life
"My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?"
Money
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
Ability
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
Fear
"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."
Life
"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."
Home
"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."
Silence
"I continued to protect him with my silence."
Silence
"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
Expectation
"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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