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"It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."
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"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
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"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."
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"Silence is an arguement hard to refute."
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"Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence."
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"A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader - as an irritating voice is to a listener."
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"Not every single way of saying the right thing is right."
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"Are you being approachable when you are around new people? Ever not know what to say? Simply smile when you make eye contact. This is a subliminal invitation to help others feel safe-allowing a conversation to follow naturally."
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"Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say."
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"Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others."
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"A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!"
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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
Poetry
"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
Growth
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
Philosophy
"The wider we read the freer we become."
Knowledge
"It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?"
Courage
"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
Creativity
"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
Life
"Be with someone you don't want to be without."
Relationship
"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."
Love
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