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"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."
"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
"If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment."
"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his power."
"One gains more from a fast than a feast."
"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."
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"But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there."
"...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu."
"Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?"
"Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do."
"Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have."
"Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When LIza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her doctor told her to take a tablespoon of port wine for medicine. She forced down the first spoonful, making a crooked face, but it was not so bad. And from that moment she never drew a completely sober breath. She always took the wine in a tablespoon, it was always medicine, but after a time she was doing over a quart a day and she was a much more relaxed and happy woman."
"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men."
"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."
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