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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."

"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."

"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"

"Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world."

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

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"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."

"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety."

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"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."

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