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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Better Better Person Body Books
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading

Kind Other People Reading
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Know Paragraph Piece Read
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Illiterate Lot Quite Read
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

Again Book Frozen Moment
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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Also, I've already won all the awards.

Also Already Awards Won
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nikola-tesla-quotes

Virtue Failings Inseparables Force
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Always Asleep Children Even
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Activity Children Literate Make
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Dance Dance Floor Dances Floor
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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Am Because Computer Feel
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Road Death Blood Alternative
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

Along Always Brothers Folks
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Faith acts in the present as though the future it desires has already manifested.

Faith Acts Present Future
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Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

Threaten Promise Convenient Pay
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

About Been Blog Corporate
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Ask Being Children Dozen
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Attention Leaves Little Little Attention
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

Bad BadReview Behind Could
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Discover Deep Nature Caveman
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Back Been Condition Dreadful
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Came First Found Great
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Read Die Middle Good
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I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
Read Book People Motherland
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Answers Conclusions Every I Think
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Opportunity Ready Secret Success
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

Any Before Believe Die
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Book Bored Readers Done
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Read Dance Amusements Harm
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I enjoy tennis, Pilates. I read magazines and love fashion.

Enjoy Fashion Love Magazines
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Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

Assurance Blessing Children Come
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Read much, but not many books.
Books Many Much Read
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Read in order to live.

Live Book Education Order
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Be Happy Because Cats Confidence
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Books Like Listen Music
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Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Difficult Feelings I Think Independent
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Compete Culture Games High
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Among Benefits Destroyer Donations
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