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"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that."
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"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
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"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do."
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"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."
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"Rekindled love is generally short-term."
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"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
Reading

"A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1."
Writing

"I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns."
Life

"Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever."
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"I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone."
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"I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Nature

"He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best."
Relationship
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