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I am not the kind of person I want to be.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.591, Hachette UK

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

"'Drunks talk trash, don't they?'". Interview with William Leith, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

I'm more a competitive person.

"Austrian Pilot Hopes To Break Freefall Record". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 23, 2012.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.357, e-artnow

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.24, Xist Publishing

I've always been a person who is driven.

"AT WORK WITH: Evelyn Lauder; From Pink Lipstick To Pink Ribbons" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1995.

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Eudora Welty (2011). “The Optimist's Daughter”, p.60, Vintage

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

"Papa Hemingway" by A.E. Hotchner, (Pt. 2, Ch. 6), 1966.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.118, Random House

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

Eric Weiner (2008). “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World”, p.174, Hachette UK

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.485, St. Martin's Griffin