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4391 Novelist Quotes

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Caused Undefended Wars Wealth
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Answer Doing Shortest Thing
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage Under Grace Pressure
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Another Details Died Distinguish
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness Intelligent Intelligent People Know
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Aim Best Down Feel
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Choose Chose Had Me
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Books Common Good Had
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Get Harder Heroes Necessary
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Absolute Father First Kid
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Book As Friend Loyal
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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

After Bad Feel Feel Good
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Continue Death End Enough
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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Know No One Now One Thing
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Age Equal Hesitation Increases
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

All My Life First First Time Life
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
Am Anyone I Am Pure
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Away Burn Discipline Far
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Come Emotional Emotional Experiences Experiences
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One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Able Control Experiences Informed
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I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.
Begun Feel Jew Like
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How we need another soul to cling to.
Another Cling How Need
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

Heart Life Skin Wear
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Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

Cannot Children Perfection Terrible
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Anybody Disappointed Expect Never
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I have a visual imagination.

Imagination Visual
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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Being Busy Insane Time You
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What I want back is what I was.
Back Want
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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Best Harm Lot Poetry
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Die Dog Good Good Reason
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.

All Things Innocence Start Things
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Drunk Fools Forced His
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Best Happen Later Make
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Because Critics God Like
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Cannot Ever Guarantee Impose
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Become Being Eligible Opponents
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What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Arrow Future Man Off
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I am a victim of introspection.
Am I Am Introspection Victim
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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Alone Am Continually Creative
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Active Being Choice Constantly
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Currents Despairing Electric Floods
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I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
Babies Beef Books Want
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When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

Beach Caught Coming Creep
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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Amount Bed Believed Best
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Bit Collection Collector Conversation
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
Away Forgot Game Hurt
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