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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.


Tanith Lee

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LEE SALK People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught...
LEE IACOCCA The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
LEE IACOCCA Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand ther...
LEE IACOCCA So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start ...
LEE IACOCCA No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
LEE RUDOLPH The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.
NATHANIEL LEE When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a...
BRUCE LEE Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awa...
BRUCE LEE There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
BRUCE LEE Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
BRUCE LEE Transform it, decorate it, let it become a new Bruce Lee museum,
BRUCE LEE The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
LEE RUDOLPH Obviously when you play, you play to win. That's our goal, to go out and win the region first and th...
ALEX LEE I don't think we're your average first-year team. We have a lot of guys who have played before and h...
ALEX LEE With today's 60-year-old, it's a very different generation of 60-year-olds than the last generation....
ALEX LEE Japan is a fast adopter of new ideas. If you're hot in Japan, you're hot really fast.
ALEX LEE It will take approximately four months to get the existing bridge down. But we are still looking at ...
ALEX LEE Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you c...
HARPER LEE Now, 75 years [after HARPER LEE Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)......
HARPER LEE