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"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
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"I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality."

"A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting."

"Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy."

"Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying."

"The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions."

"Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous."

"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero."

"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."

"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
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"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."

"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."

"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."

"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."

"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
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