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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

About How Intelligent Mind
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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Bully Excruciating Felt Had
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Always Bleak Family Family Life
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
Extraordinary People Put Real
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Down Get Paper Remember
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Husband Lover Nerve Extracted
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

One woman Man dreads Marrying
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A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Man's heart Secret sanctuary Woman
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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
Hardest task Prove Man Intentions
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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Few years Man Woman Marriage
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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Man Goodbye Woman Say it
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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

A bachelor Idea Beauty Boy
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You will never win if you never begin.
Will never Win Begin
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

People Watch stops Hour Permanently
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.

Man Greatest sin Woman Commit
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Follies Man regrets Life Commit
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Man spends Time Wife Criticism
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Two people Divorce Understand
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Happy Man Understand Love
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What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Conscience Mental action Sentimental reaction
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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Waste time Break Man's heart
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Marriage Miracle Transform Kiss
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Man's desire Duplicate Remarkable pattern
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Nowadays Love Matter Chance
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Bride Second marriage Wear
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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Man Cat Run Ignore him
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In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

Love Man's heart Exceeding Speed limit
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Marriage Turning Chopsticks
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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Before marriage Declares His life
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Marriage Woman Keen Right
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Conservatism Know Secondhand Very
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Art Discussion Drama Intellectual
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Doubt Fanaticism
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Be Expects Fool Happy
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Art Ashamed Author Belief
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Get Ideas Me
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

However Inevitably Inexperienced Influences
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age Book Depends Experience
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Common Love Occasional Passion
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Easy Fake Inner Nothing
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Comprehend Eye Mind Only
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Authors Because Cats Creatures
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