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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually ma

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, were always in other places, lost, like sheep. – Janet Frame

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Travel
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Janet Frame
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Imagination
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Janet Frame
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He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. – Scottish Proverb

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Persuasion

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Persuasion

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. – Johann von Goethe

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Persuasion

If you cant get people to listen to you any other way, tell them its confidential. – Proverb

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Persuasion

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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. – Saint Francis de Sales

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

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You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body… my liver… okay, my brain… went. – Dennis Hopper

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