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4391 Novelist Quotes

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Development Good Men Only
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Minus Serious Shooting Sport
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Because Beds Behalf Men
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Ending Lose Quickest Way War
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Believe Could Ideas Intelligent
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Always Beings Demand Get
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Been Facts Foresee Future
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Dirty Every Funny Joke
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Always Difference Hardly Less
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Being Does Human Human Being
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Fighting Hatred Invariably Lies
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Act Against Before Every
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Act Destruction Essential Human
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Against Classes Country Foreign
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Comfortable Intelligent Make Masses
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Art Least Lies Untrue
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Advances Degraded Humanity More
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Everything Geometry May Perfectly
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Anything Becomes Enough Interesting
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Life May Orderly Original
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Read much, but not many books.
Books Many Much Read
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Art Believe Discovering Writing
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Anything Artists Attain Cannot
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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Elder See Sees Sitting
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

All The Facts Disbelieve Facts Rule
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Read in order to live.

Live Book Education Order
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Bears Cracked Crude Dance
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

About Deplorable Doubt Doubts
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Enterprises Failed Humiliating Idiots
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Go Good Heat Happiness Health
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Causes History Ignorance Our
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Exact Geometry Inventions Poetry
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

All Powerful Artist Creation Everywhere
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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Only There Perception Truth
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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Art Calculate Enemies Harm
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Exuberance is better than taste.

Better Exuberance Taste Than
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Author Everywhere God His
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
Beautiful Effect Faster More
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Attained Bourgeois Democracy Dream
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But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

Always Extent Hands Idols
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Conform Does Ideal Reality
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Dog Life Living Only
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Even Everything Hope Love
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Ambitious Amuse Children Instruction
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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Bears Beat Cracked Dance
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Absolute Almost Art Axiom
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Does Feels Master Never
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Devil Here His Ignorance
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Dies Friend Something Who
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Blood Life Never Style
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