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"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."

"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."

"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."
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