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"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."
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"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."

"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."

"Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks."

"The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession."

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."

"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."

"Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine."

"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."

"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."
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"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."

"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."

"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."

"Like it! Yes-the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too."
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