"I like women. I really like women."

-- Dashiell Hammett

“It's hard to tell people who they should hang out with and who they shouldn't, especially if they aren't ready to hear that. You have to let your friends make their own mistakes sometimes. You can't protect them from everything, or else they'll never learn”
“Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.”
“You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isnâ€™t divinely inspired â€“ itâ€™s hard work.”

Source : "Tom Clancy on Writing The Hunt for Red October". www.amc.com.
“A garden is the best alternative therapy.”
“Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.”
“I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.”
“There is never only one, of anyone”

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