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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."

"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."

"Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant."

"The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect."

"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."

"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."

"The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile."

"That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations."

"He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner."

"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."

"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
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