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Isaac Asimov
From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico
Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours. We got careless with ours.
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Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
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E. V. Lucas
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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Mary Catherine Bateson
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Oprah Winfrey
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
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Robertson Davies
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
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Amy Tan
Memory feeds imagination.
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George Washington Carver
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
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Mark Twain
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
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Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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