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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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"A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting."
"Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy."
"Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying."
"The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions."
"Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous."
"People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor-an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth."
"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."
"On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone."
"Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility."
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"To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof."
"I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination."
"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life."
"Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together."
"Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.""But you're the Answerers!""You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?""No""""To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
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