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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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Personal Development
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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Personal Development
"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
People
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
Life
"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it."
Time
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."
Family
"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."
Discovery
"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature."
Nature
"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
Religion
"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."
Reading
"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man."
Nature
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