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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development
"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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Personal Development
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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Personal Development
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."
People
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."
Life
"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
Events
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"When I read, I'm purely a reader."
Reading
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
Family
"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."
Writing
"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Life
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