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"Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."
"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."
"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."
"If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment."
"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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"People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things."
"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
"I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost."
"More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living."
"I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing."
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