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"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."
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"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down."

"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."

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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
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