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"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
Learning
"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
Fiction
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought
"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
Job
"As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me."
Medical
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
Synonyms
"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
Ambition
"As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever."
Dream
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
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"I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie."
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Personal Development
"The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box."
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Personal Development
"True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us."
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Personal Development
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
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Personal Development
"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
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Personal Development
"With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth."
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Personal Development
"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."
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Personal Development
"Belief in the lie is the life of the lie."
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Personal Development
"In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?"
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Personal Development
"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
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Personal Development
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