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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."

"Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine."

"I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic."
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