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4391 Novelist Quotes

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

Box Broke Came Columbus
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When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Around Dead Part Rendezvous
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Appreciate Get Got Just
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Go Rest Take Use
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Lightning Rather Rod Than
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
Facts Hell Need Stories
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Between Heroes Phone Super
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man World Search Needs
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The difficulty in life is the choice.

Difficulty In life Choice
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness

Guard well Treasure Kindness Hesitation
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One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Happy Necessary Ingredients Simple tastes
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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Accept truth Surprises Views
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Tear out Single page Life Book
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

One happiness Life Love
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Nothing resembles Selfishness Self respect
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile
Butterflies Flowers Sunny day Nature
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

Capacity Passion Cruel
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Mistake Regard age Toward dissolution
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Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
Whoever Loved Life contains Joy
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life resembles Novels
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The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

World Understand me Greatly matter
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

God abandons Courage Shut up
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Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Know Replace Heart Happiness
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty

Virtues Nobles qualities I love Exclusive
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Most honest Men Best Powerful
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Who draws Nobles delights Poetry
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Artist vocation Send light
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No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Ugly Understand Virtues Sweetness
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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

God Written Law People
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And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Refused Sacrifices Valuable Peace
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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

Doubts Reality Situation Wondered
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Weak people live in perpetual fear and foreboding.

Weak people Fear
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Happiness Life Love
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We have now all sorts of good reasons for accepting life, quite as good as those that had made us reject it the previous week.

Sorts Good reasons Life Good
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