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"I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites."
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
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"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
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"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
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"It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts."
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"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
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"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
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"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
Books
"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
Life
"I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home."
Home
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
Art
"I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites."
Attitude
"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."
Being
"How can you stop writing?"
Writing
"I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind."
Mind
"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like."
Time
"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were."
War
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