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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"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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"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."

"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."

"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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