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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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"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
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"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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Personal Development
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."
Decision-Making
"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."
Thought
"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."
Effort
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Reflection
"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."
Being
"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."
Fun
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
Joy
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
Sense
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
Criticism
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
Effort
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