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4391 Novelist Quotes

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

Mother's day Celebrates Value Women
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If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Parents Affect Life Child
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Deep Understanding Opinion Read
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Joy is the best makeup.

Joy Best Makeup
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Forgiveness Giving up Hope Better past
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

You Practice Right Kind
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Not forgiving Like Drinking Waiting
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Good Marriage People Feel
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Good Do Uncomffortable things Weight
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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Remember Places Heart Exist
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility

God Something Wonderful Hardship
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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue
Man Born Broken Lives
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Almost Good Writing Begins
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The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

Difference You God Doesn't
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We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

We Know Die Important
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Almost Everything Work again Unplug
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Gratitude Understanding Secret Joy
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Can read Be happy Great blessing
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

Nobody holds Good opinion A man Low opinion
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Let love Interfere with Your appetite
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My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

My belief In life People Own reckoning
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

No happiness In love The end
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Love Other luxury No right Afford it
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Above all Never think Good enough
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

No way Writing well Easily
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Words spoken Be recalled A man Woman
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Become divine Be content Be human Hurry
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Marry Often cross Own way I have
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Book love,is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Book love Your pass The greatest The purest
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Romance Very pretty In novels A life
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Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.

Conduct Oneself excellently Yet break One's heart
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Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

The world More wrong Man does More indignant
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I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.

Woman's life Is loved Not outlived The power
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Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,never reached but always coming.

Her happiness The future Never reached Always coming
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Were liberals Not democrats Yet infidels
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Greatest mistake Any man To suppose Good things
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Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt.

Who depart Have earned Sorrow Really felt
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A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Woman's weapon Her tongue
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If a husband be not master of his wife's heart, he has no right to her fealty; if a wife ceases to love, she may cease to be true.

A husband Not master Wife's heart To love
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But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect.

But women Bear anything Than desertion Cruelty
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That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.

Fighting A battle Without belief Sorriest task
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It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

A man Train himself Live honestly Die fearlessly
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Few men do understand the nature of a woman’s heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.

Few men Do understand Nature Women's heart
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Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence.

Love Involuntary A yoke With prudence
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There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.

Are men Whose energies Carry them Beyond looking
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I get a warm feeling among my books.

Warm feeling My books
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old Like being Increasingly penalized Crime
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It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

What happens People Is significant They think
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There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

No pleasure That given A woman Who really wants
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Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Writing Combination Intangible creative Fantasy
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