Sloan Wilson Quotes

#1. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.

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#2. The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

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#3. You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.

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#4. People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore.

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#5. Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.

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#6. When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

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#7. You don't really know much until you get to be 70.

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#8. How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.

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#9. I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

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#10. When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

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#11. You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

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#12. It doesn't really matter. Here goes nothing. It will be interesting to see what happens.

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#13. The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

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#14. A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

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#15. I could get a job in an advertising agency. I'll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness.

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#16. The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work.

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#17. Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

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#18. Believe me, I want you to have a good time,' he said gently, 'but people who have that primarily in mind rarely accomplish it.

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#19. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

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