"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."

People, Books, Wonders

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"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

People, First

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

People, Company

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

People, Feeling, Opera

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

People, Belief, Blind

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

People, Wants, Dreams, Action

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."

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"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."

Travel

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation."

Time

"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists."

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"Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life."

Life

"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."

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"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation."

"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists."

"Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."

"Beware of a man with manners."

"Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life."

"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."