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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
Advice
"Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars."
Art
"She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second."
Romance
"But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing."
Perception
"I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours."
Writing
"A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1."
Writing
"What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that."
Change
"If you're a bird... I'm a bird..."
Romance
"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."
Compassion
"I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?"
Love
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