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Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft

Research is a lifelong occupation so it’s hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Book Finish Months Research
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Memories Oneself Religion Shadow Suffering Young
To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Communication Myself Perfection Word Writing
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
CARLOS SANTANA

Food Garden Small Smell Spiritual
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
MARIE KONDO

Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
Faucet Failure’ was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn’t overthink anything, and I wanted to just have fun with the song.
SKI MASK THE SLUMP GOD

Failure Fun Myself Song Thinking
Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.
KEN BLANCHARD

Leadership Style Team
I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
JIMMY CARTER

Existence Myself See
Literature + Illness = Illness.
ROBERTO BOLANO

Illness Literature
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
ZHUANGZI

Generous Greatness Passion Small Speech Wisdom
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
TOM PETERS

Anything Matter Offering Quality
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
CLAUDE MONET

Despair God Mistake Myself Sensation
If I can be more efficient, I’m actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
GEORGE SAUNDERS

Intimacy Reader Respectful
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN

Affection Goodness Grace Principal
We don’t have to do everything, that we can’t do everything, that what I can’t do is someone else’s gift and responsibility. My limitations make space for the gifts of other people
JAY SHETTY

Deep Gift Limitation Myself People Responsibility Space Thinking
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
VINCE LOMBARDI

Deep Failure Habit Inspirational One Liner Quit