Top 19 Arthur Hailey Quotes
#1. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
#2. Who preceded him, he enjoyed her sexual calisthenics,
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#3. Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.
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#4. Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
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#5. So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.
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#6. I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
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#7. There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.
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#8. It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.
Arthur Hailey
#9. Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.
Arthur Hailey
#10. I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
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#11. A private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself.
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#12. ... there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.
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#13. When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
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#14. I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
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#15. We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.
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#16. The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
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#17. There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
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#18. Somewhere? Even now, perhaps, it was not too late
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#19. Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?
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