"One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end."

-- Paul Lisicky

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“It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.”
“I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline”
“Talent borrows, genius steals!”
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

Source : Mercedes Lackey (2004). “Exile's Valor”, p.106, Penguin
“Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.”
“When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!”
“It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.”
“Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!”

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