"I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary."

-- Mark Helprin

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“Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try”
“A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.”
“I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.”

Source : Margery Wilson (1928). “Charm”
“When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.”
“Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.”
“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”
“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”
“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

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