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4391 Novelist Quotes

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Freeing yourself One thing Claiming ownership
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

I have Ever loved Cool baptisms Silent water
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Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Ever think Fell For you In love
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Definitions Belongs The definers The defined
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You are your best thing
You are Best thing
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Love is never any better than the lover.

Love.never Any better Lover
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

What difference Make Thing You scared
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The function Freedom Free Someone else
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

You enter Positions Trust Power
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Really Nothing more To say Except why
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Anything dead Coming back Life hurts
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

A dream Nightmare With lipstick
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

We die Meaning Life Do language
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

Anger Better Reality Presence
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Place Love anything Permission Desire
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Something that is loved is never lost.
Something Loved Never lost
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Political correctness Debate The power Define
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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

World For you Make it The way
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Beauty Simply something To behold Could do
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To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Given dominion Over another Hard thing Wrest
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The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

The presence Evil First recognized Dealt with
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Think Female running House Problem
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

The truth Dreams die Never take The word
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There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

The center Silence Not eternity Death
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Mistook violence For passion Recklessness Freedom
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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Art Restoration Discuss Terrible things
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

Human Wish Permanent happiness Human imagination
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No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

No matter How hard Ignore it Mind
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When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Happy Difference Stay alive
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Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
Your mistakes Take Your chance Look silly
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I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Have To see Thing Thousand times
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Have reached Pinnacle Success Uninterested
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

Young man So strong So certain So lost
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Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.

Toil on Loose heart Hope Dismay
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

In sleep All naked Alone United
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The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Mountains His masters Cup Reality
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs

Culture Arts elevated Set Beliefs
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Loneliness Central Inevitable experience Every man
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Man Born To live Die
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Whole conviction My life Rest upon Belief
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There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
No sight More appealing Woman Making dinner
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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Fabulous country Only place Where miracle Happened
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live

Writing Mode Write I live
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The great thing about writing: Stay with it.ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Great thing Writing Stay Teach yourself
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it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Possible Love fly Cloud Windy
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Be strangers We both Believe In God
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If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Hear His voice When prayers Go up
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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Man stays Alive Chances Dead man
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For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
For misery Blame God He gives Food
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

Some men Nature explorers Stay Same moon
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