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"The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons."
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"When you enter a room, a social situation, or a business meeting, be mindful of cues; read between the lines to better understand people and events. What do these things tell you?"
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"Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going-people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward."
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"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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"Meditation is a state, often defined as deep dreamless sleep awake. But, in the same way that you cannot sleep on demand, you cannot meditate on demand - that is, you can't reach the state instantly in the same way that you can raise your right hand. The practices preceding meditation are relaxation, stillness and mental focus. Those are all things you can do. They are the preparation. Then, if you the circumstances are right, you can transition from the waking to the meditative state."
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"You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch."
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"You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind."
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"I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country."
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"Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el jardin del hospital?And why is the sun such a bad companionto the traveler in the desert?And why is the sun so congenial in the hospital garden?"
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"Dark alleys, like social networks, are romantic, because you never know what might happen while I perform there every Caturday night. Cats do know, but won't tell. So don't even ask."
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"Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you."
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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."
Life
"There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
Cure
"Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."
Success
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose."
Writing
"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."
Humor
"It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought."
History
"The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good."
Creativity
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."
Creativity
"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"
Society
"Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through."
Motivation
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