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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."
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Personal Development
"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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Personal Development
"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."
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Personal Development
"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."
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Personal Development
"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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Personal Development
"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
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Personal Development
"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
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Personal Development
"Character is what can do without success."
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Personal Development
"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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Personal Development
"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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"I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them."
Time
"She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could."
Creativity
"The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears."
Art
"I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance."
Relationship
"Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?"
Literature
"Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing."
Emotion
"It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human."
Memory
"Good fiction creates its own reality."
Literature
"You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job."
Time
"We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept."
Wisdom
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