"It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there."

-- William Golding

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“Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.”
“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”
“It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.”
“You learn to judge your friends for who they are.”

Source : "G-Unit was better broke, tony Yayo Reveals" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2013.
“I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.”
“Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.”

Source : Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”
“What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.”

Source : "Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.
“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”

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