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"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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Personal Development
"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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Personal Development
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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Personal Development
"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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Personal Development
"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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Personal Development
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
Want
"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."
Life
"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."
Dance
"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
Work
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
Fear
"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
Baby
"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now
"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."
Books
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
People
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