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Only the gentle are ever really strong. ↗

— James Dean

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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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I want to be judged on my own merits. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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