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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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"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 will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."
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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"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
"There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work."
Work
"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
Writing
"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
Work
"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
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."
Thought
"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
Experience
"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."
Writing
"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
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