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4391 Novelist Quotes

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Aphorism Define Difficult More
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

First Law Nature Self-Preservation
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Bible May Nothing Truth
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
Beauty Because Boring Predictable
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Aims Enjoy Learned Life
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death Life Must Neither
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Art Exact Life Science
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Before Leap Like Look
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Because Excluded Felicity General
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Fatal God His Own
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Bona Doing Falls Ground
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Best Done Easy Forgive
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Appeal Like Logic Perish
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence Condemns Good Half
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Conviction Man Nothing Serious
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Always Company Doing Enjoy
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Common Lord Sense Shared
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Able Culture Enough First
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Else Enough Fools Knave
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Bad Cannot Does Forget
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Certain Expense Law Nothing
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Embryo Life Living Man
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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Getting Life Long Process
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Always Anything Architecture Else
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Idleness Men Sin Some
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Interests Just Men Opinions
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Advantage Doing Exactly Lay
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Absence Entire Nothing Thought
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Carnal Divine Pearl Precious
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Error Pursuit Source Truth
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

His Important Man Money
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Bounds Function Keep Reasonable
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Been Evil Love Money
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The history of art is the history of revivals.

Art History
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Amount Best Go He
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Character Chisel Complete Life
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Against He His Opinion
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Animal Laughs Legislature Man
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Actions Conscious Less Lives
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Always Between Breeze Cracking
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

According Action Advance Aimless
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