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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Persuasion
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. – Lord Chesterfield

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Persuasion

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar. – Proverb

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Persuasion

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. – Hesketh Pearson

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Quotations

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. – George Carlin

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality. – Mario Monti

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Hope