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4391 Novelist Quotes

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

One Major Keep Cross
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Traveling Desire Cross Boundaries
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimate Gold Explore Describe
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing wit

Weapon Suicide Revenge Victim
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Think Claim Part Other
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Major Question Keep Permission
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

Living Through Yourself Better
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Man Go Who Living
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Life Married Single Wife
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Being Human Love Possible
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Ability Genius Might Profound
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Bad Creates Good Many
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Crazy Truly Horrible Live
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Story Write Like Own
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Beauty Truth Virtue Vulnerable
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Comfort Contentment End Come
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Respect Around Cease Love
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Deserve Tear You Cry
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Present Control Future Past
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Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Steady Work Original Fierce
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

Remember Believe Cause Endure
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Life Fast Dream Field
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Ship Sail Storm Afraid
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I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Quality Imagination Myself Somebody
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Love Live Want
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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.

Young Live Happy Die
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Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.

Intellectual Feminine Affectionate Know
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Courage World Life Lack
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman...dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Woman Dreaming Unexploited Secret
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Poet Heart Hold Measure
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

Happiness World Comfort Excitement
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She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn't boring.

Chiefly Boring Refused
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves

Loose End Men Hang
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

West Evil Often Done
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Attack Truth Remain Silent
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Feel Shade Feel Experience
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wisdom Become Depend Believe
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change Keep Intact Root
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Camp Love Court Rule
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I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hide Write Climb Create
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Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

Flow Same Human Way
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Teach Nobody Who Describe
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Clever White Religion Amused
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