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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."
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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady."
Humor
"It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch."
Humor
"For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been the proper, the only approach-but not for this woman, in these circumstances. The only thing that will cleanse Claire (and reassure her: look at what she says at the end of it. She feels safe again, having felt the power and violence in him) is violence. And-the most important point here-Jamie pays attention to what she wants, rather than proceeding with his own notion of how it should be, even though it's a sensible notion and the one most people would have."
Relationship
"Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace."
Life
"It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered."
Knowledge
"Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully."
Society
"I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?"
Desire
"You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose."
Psychology
"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
Ambition
"Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades."
Art
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