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"Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing."
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"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."
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"A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles."
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"I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me."
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"Since we are all unique and individual, being cognizant of different personality styles will help you better recognize where others are coming from to minimize barriers, build trust, and catapult your newfound communication skills into meaningful connections. The savvy socializer knows this all."
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"Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind."
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"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
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"She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more."
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"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
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"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."
Emotion
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
Kids
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Imagination
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
Music
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
Reading
"Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name's the motherof the ten thousand things."
Spiritual
"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Love
"There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk."
Communication
"Judgement is poverty."
Ethics
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
Life
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