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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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Personal Development
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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Personal Development
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
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Personal Development
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."
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"The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty."
People
"Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands."
Family
"All children have creative power."
Power
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."
Writing
"Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing."
Writing
"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."
Mistake
"Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two."
Life
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