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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#creates #destructive #element #fear #human

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance. ↗

— Paul Parker

#control #development #feel #gear #i

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#best #best work #done #droves #ever

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#college #effect #except #flunked #gone

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#had #i #just #painful #say

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#caught #dorm #even #friends #got

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#down #i #ideas #know #long

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#any #hope #i #i have learned #i think

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#day #herself #his #i #interesting