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4391 Novelist Quotes

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posses half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

You overrate Capacity Love Warmth
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All romances end at marriage.

All romances End At marriage
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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Some good Dead Success Frightful example
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Fate Makes Villain A man
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When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Strong woman Throws away Strength Worse than
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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Question My belief Even stronger
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Teach me Live Grave My bed
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Have torn My life Prayed In pity
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O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

Wish Never seen Loving Misery
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words Powerful drug Mankind
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Never made Mistake Life Afterwards
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Prefer Believe Best Everybody
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History Taught Stories Forgotten
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Woman's guess More accurate Man's certainty
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
All islands Shouting lies Across seas Misunderstanding
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

Liars World Worst Own fears
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Take everything Like seriously Yourselves
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I keep six honest serving men they taught me all i knew; Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Six honest Serving men What Why
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

No price High Privilege Owning yourself
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Must learn Forgive Man In love
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The female Species More deadly Male
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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

World Very lovely Very horrible Your life
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

War Ill thing Weaponless dreamers Evil men
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
We have Forty million Reasons Failure
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Brief life Offers us Splendid moments Meaningful adventures
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

No sin So great As ignorance
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

First condition Understanding Foreign country
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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

Intensely human Lives Life
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There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?"

One task One life Give Stands
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

The glory Garden Lies Meets
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Have Freedom Fathers Long
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Something I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.

Owe to Soil Grew Life
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.

God Help us Worst Too young
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When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Moon Gets up Cat Walks
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

More men Killed Overwork Importance
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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Any question We died Father's lied
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Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and be happened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

Hear Attend Listen Befell
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
There is No jealousy The grave
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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Great deal Christianity Uncivilized Failing
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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way

Many wear The robes Few walk The way
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One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Prescribe books To people One knows Good deal
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If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.

Man Hear The truth Spoken twisted
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The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,

The reason Beast Man Weakest
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Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

Body The spirit Surrendered Harsh instructors
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I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

Write Against violence Fascism Person
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There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

No beginning Stories Only places An entrance
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I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

Maintain Ordinary Human being Right
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He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

Being loved Never have To die
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Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Literature Intended Dangerous Art
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Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

Nothing Completely verifies Perception Thing
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