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"A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting."
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"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."
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"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!"
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"May as well have ox blood running through those veins, I added, 'You're as stubborn as one."
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Personal Development
"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."
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Personal Development
"I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'"
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Personal Development
"As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore."
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Personal Development
"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."
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Personal Development
"Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers."
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Personal Development
"I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?"
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"You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute."
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"They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit."
Psychology
"Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all."
Communication
"Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride."
Love
"I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient."
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"One can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street."
Life
"There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.''Dangerous? What do you mean?''Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous."
Psychology
"...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside."
Character
"... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back..."
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"The two words expressed volumes."
Communication
"And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?"
Nature
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