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"I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action."
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"The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere, people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere."
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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."
"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."
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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."
"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."
"...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside."
"... 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..."
"Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily."
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