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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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Personal Development
"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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Personal Development
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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Personal Development
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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Personal Development
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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Personal Development
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Religions get lost as people do."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."
People
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
People
"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
History
"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
Family
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Crime
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
Fiction
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