English - Novelist | October 8, 1933 -
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
Michael Korda
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
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The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
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It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
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I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
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I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.
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