"One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring.""
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"Resistance is the secret of joy!"
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"The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy."
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"I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal."
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"Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?"
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"Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard."
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"The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them."
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"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."
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"He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs."
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"No one can keep a secret better than a child."
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"So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon."
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"I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages."
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"What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court."
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"He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life."
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"Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature."
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"I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success."
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"Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations"
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"It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else."
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"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
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"It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble."
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