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- Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
(Stephen King, "The Dark Tower")
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- Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
(Stephen R. Covey, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People")
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- There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
(Stephen R. Covey, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People")
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- Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
(Rohinton Mistry, "A Fine Balance")
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- Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
(Sarah Dessen, "Along for the Ride")
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- Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
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- But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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- The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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- We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks-we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
(Mitch Albom, "Tuesdays with Morrie")
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- There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.
(Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient")
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- Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they're more easily buffeted by a strong idea or a breeze of fashion.
(Michael Pollan, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals")
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