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  1. Nora Roberts _ Key of Knowledge

    It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.
    book-quotelifehumanspirit

  2. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.
    book-quoteegoold-maninsulting

  3. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... {'Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.}
    book-quotewritingsmilewriter

  4. Michael J Gelb _ The Art of Connection: 7

    True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.
    book-quoteegohumilityself-worth

  5. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice.
    book-quotewritingwriterego

  6. Simone Elkeles _ Rules of Attraction

    I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.
    book-quoteego

  7. Simone Elkeles _ Rules of Attraction

    Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me."Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
    book-quoteegoconversationwestford

  8. Anne Rice _ Interview with the Vampire

    And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt."
    book-quoteego

  9. Zia Haider Rahman _ In the Light of What We Know

    Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence of rage, or reading Naipaul might convince you to seize the ego that so wants to be loved, drag it outside, put it up against a wall, and shoot it."
    book-quotewritingegowriters

  10. Tahir Shah _ House of the Tiger King: The

    The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
    book-quoteegoglory

  11. Walter Isaacson _ American Sketches: Great

    Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
    book-quotereflectionegohumility

  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Blind Assassin

    Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They're no use at all in the dark
    book-quoteegointellect
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