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"Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you."
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"Be curious, confident and courageous."
"Be confident, be bold! These are your life greatest strength for success."
"Be firm with your decisions."
"Be assertive, in speech and in conduct."
"McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming."
"It is enough if God approves of me and all are against me."
"I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true."
"An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you."
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"The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else."
"The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock."
"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."
"On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away."
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."
"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."
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