"Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived."

-- Sylvia Ann Hewlett

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“There is nothing political about American literature.”
“What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”
“The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.”
“Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.”
“The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.”
“I think I feel the most comfortable being insane.”
“We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?”

Source : "The Spiritual Man".
“I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.”

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