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Quote by Sinclair Lewis

“People read fiction for emotion-not information”

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American novelist known for his profound depiction of middle-class life in the United States. His notable works include 'Babbitt' and 'Main Street'. more

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.”

Source: Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.”

Writing Stills Book Three Thirds Prose Three Times

Book:The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction

Source: The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction

“One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.”

World Way Criticism One Way Bother

Author:Napoleon Hill

“People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.”

People Humans Use Animal Creating Advantage Tools Dominance

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.”

Attention Violence Media Caught Acts Of Violence

Author:Kathy Change

“Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.”

People Easy Tough Bars Fixing

Author:Jon Taffer

“Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.”

World Law Political Principles Century Design Taught Divine Intelligent Trade International Creator Physics Biology Economist Nineteenth Century Intelligent Design International Trade

Author:Daniel Walker Howe

“If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.”

Ifs Trying Goal Emotional Connections Accomplish Quitting Odds Emotional Connection Accomplish Your Goals

Author:Brett Hoebel

“I never say goodbye, I say, “au-revoir.” Goodbye is so final. Au-revoir means I will see you again.”

Mean Finals Goodbye Saying Goodbye You Again Never Say Goodbye

Author:Tao Porchon-Lynch

“A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.”

Home Age Silence Drama Tragedy Jazz Edges Climbs Cliffs Revive Jazz Age

Author:Bruce Barcott

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