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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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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."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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Personal Development
"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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Personal Development
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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Personal Development
"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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Personal Development
"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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Personal Development
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
Books
"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
Poetry
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
Challenge
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
Technology
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."
Books
"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
Crime
"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."
Creativity
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