It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

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To me, money is alive. It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you. If you treat it arrogantly and contemptuously, as if it were not human, as if it were only a slave and could work without limit, it will turn on you with a great revenge and leave you to look after yourself alone.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

—Bertrand Russell

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

—Samuel Butler

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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

—Agatha Christie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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