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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

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