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"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"I'm done in this business, that's for sure."
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"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
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"When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date."
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"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
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"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
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"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
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"Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help."
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"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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"It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have."
Fiction
"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."
People
"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."
Attention
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Life
"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
Business
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
Truth
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
Time
"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
Losing
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
Art
"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
Will
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