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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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Personal Development
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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Personal Development
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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Personal Development
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
Style
"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
Magic
"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge."
Time
"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me."
Faith
"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle."
Time
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
History
"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
Communication
"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
Books
"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."
Success
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
Diversity
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