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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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Personal Development
"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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Personal Development
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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Personal Development
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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Personal Development
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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Personal Development
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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Personal Development
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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Personal Development
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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Personal Development
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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Personal Development
"Religions get lost as people do."
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"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."
People
"In violence, we forget who we are."
Violence
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
Personal
"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
Negative
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
Behavior
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
Life
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
Writing
"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
Life
"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."
Art
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
Politics
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