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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
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Personal Development
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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Personal Development
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
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Personal Development
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
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Personal Development
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
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"It is better to think positive than dwell on negative thoughts."
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Personal Development
"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
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Personal Development
"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
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"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."
Humor
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
Inspirational
"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
Writing
"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."
Attitude
"In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it..."
Culture
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."
Society
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."
Attitude
"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."
Wisdom
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Language
"Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three years afterward, from the fever which had cured the disease, waking from the fever without even knowing that it had been the fever itself which they had fought against and not the sickness, looking with stubborn recalcitrance backward beyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret, weak from the fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that the freedom was that of impotence."
Childhood
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