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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you... →
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David... →
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for... →
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get... →
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact... →
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.