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4391 Novelist Quotes

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Back Bread Cast Floating
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Better Bombing Bringing Child
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

About Born Changed Changes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
Change Cry Easier Much
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Daily Daily Work Dead Effort
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Discover Foresee Impossible Larger
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Become Country Educated Impossible
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Biology Blaze Could Earth
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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Because Begin Does Effectively
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

Also Beings Beneath Better
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Against Armed Changing Conquest
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

About Each Each Time First
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Begins Begun Habit Live
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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Before Came Leave Need
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Afford Anyone Cannot Child
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Become Being Being Real Certain
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Because Ignores Most People
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
Essays Like Theory Writing
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I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Sing Speak Strangers Talking
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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Around Audience Commercial Ideal
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Believe Friends Language Literary
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Day Dreamer Dreams Great
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Above Conceit Envy Every
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Days Dearest Far Life
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Abstain Act Conveyed Enough
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Anger Control Humble Modest
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Curl Mere Scatter Smoke
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Deeds Good Holy Learning
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Feel Good Proud Too
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Faith Jewish Life Orthodox
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Broken Feel Him Laugh
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Even Fasting God More
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Dream Fools Wealth
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
Imagined Life Much Than
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Appealed Box Burning Cap
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Biggest Books Critics Never
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

About Anything Bizarre Characters
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Does Five Hours Minutes
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

Another Baby Bet Family
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

All-Around Around Article Book
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

About Anything Believe Know
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

About Am Back Because
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

About American American Dream Dream
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Bahamas Family Lovely Quite
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

All-Around Anyone Anyone Else Around
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