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Rules Quotes


"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."



"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."


"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."


"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."



"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."


"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."


"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."


"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."


"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."
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