#fe

The real business of life is trying to understand each other. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#commandments #different #different set #every #every man

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#follow #her #i #joan #life

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

— Dorothy Thompson

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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

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

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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

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I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#feel #feel good #flag #fly #freak