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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"Societies depend on agreed rules."
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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
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"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."
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"Restrict bankruptcy rules."
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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
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