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"We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."

"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."

"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."

"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."

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his power."

"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"

"One gains more from a fast than a feast."
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"Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers."


"When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers?"


"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."


"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."


"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."
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