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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"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
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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Personal Development
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river."
People
"Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued."
Time
"You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it."
People
"I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases."
Career
"I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books."
Work
"Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are."
People
"When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional."
People
"When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice."
Career
"The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore."
Career
"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again."
Being
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