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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."

"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."

"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."

"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"

"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."


"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."


"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."


"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."


"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on."


"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."
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