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"Discipline is required in all human endeavours."
"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."
"You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
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