"I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me."

-- Peggy Lee

#Running Quotes #Nice Quotes #People Quotes

“No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”
“When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.”
“I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.”

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“Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.”
“They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple.”
“Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. Itâ€™s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.”
“You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.”
“There is no social life outside of Christendom.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.

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