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4391 Novelist Quotes

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Defense Faithful Found Friend
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Anna Asked Babies Bad
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Always Been Has-Been Lord
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Cure Earth You
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Again Better Ever Fail
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I can't go on. I'll go on

Go
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Another Begins Constant Each
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Birth was the death of him.

Birth Death Him
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Beat Drops Head Kiss
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Ape Autumn Beauty Dying
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Deep Grown Like My Soul
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Air Cleanse Cool Earth
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Democracy Everybody Lord Me
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Care Cry Out People
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Got Humor Laughing Ought
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Always Being Bore Poor
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Does Dream Dry Explode
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Almost Anywhere Discovered Getting
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Afraid Also Artist Certainly
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

America Been Concerned Depicting
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Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Anger Ill Makes Me
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Able All My Life Anything Been
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I must never write when I do not want to write.

Must Never Want Write
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

Advanced American Among Art
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

Accepts Am Any Art
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

America Between Early Jewish
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

Both Eyes Jewish Jewish People
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

About Books Children Great
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Artist Beauty Interpret Mission
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Besides His Just Matter
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Better Blame Dream Real
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Translation is the art of failure.

Art Failure The Translation
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Another Courage Fear Fearful
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Dream Dreams Many Nothing
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Comic Feeling Humor Opposite
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Before Die Fear Instead
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Because Free Insane Laugh
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Believe Believing Everything God
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

About Among Anticipation Bullets
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Dead Die Everyone Going
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