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"When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write."
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"If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose."
"It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked."
"Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die."
"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."
"It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony."
"The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever."
"Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction."
"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Each day you wake up, work as if the manifestation of your dream solely depends on that day."
"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."
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"A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically."
"...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product."
"Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra."
"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
"It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget-and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change."
"The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual."
"Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans."
"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."
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