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"You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."

"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."

"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."
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"Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them."

"If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things."

"One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion."

"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."

"I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning revealed the flaws and excesses it was trying to conceal."
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