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"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."
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"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."

"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."

"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."

"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."

"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."

"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."

"Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant."

"High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully."

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."

"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"

"Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect."

"I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues."

"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."

"Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning."

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

"That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt."
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