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4391 Novelist Quotes

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man Never made Woman angry A failure
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The trouble With wedlock Enough wed Much lock
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man Is lonely Eating spaghetti It requires
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

One rule Good talker Learn To listen
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Man's heart Secret nerve Answers The vibrations
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

You have To pretend A parade Really interested
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life Foreign language All men Mispronounce it
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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Good thing Your mind Upside down Hour glass
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A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades.

A doctor Advertised My business The mind
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in Bookshop Warehouse Explosive
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The sinner The right To preach
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes Hardest To bear Never came
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words A commodity Never Any slump
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies The future Nicest people
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That's what this country needs,more books.

Country needs More books
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Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Any fool Be happy A man Real heart
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Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Everybody A book Blood We're opened
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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love.

Wounds So deeply Irreparably Hope
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That which is imagined can never be lost.
Is imagined Can never Be lost
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I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

My life That love The beginning End
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Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Writing about The unholy One way Scared
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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Life Is short Pleasures few Drowned
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A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

A man Kills The thing He loves
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Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Superman Alien life Acceptable face Invading realities
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Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

People Are wonderful With animals Terribly good
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there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.

There's nothing The worild More fun Doing something
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Words are sexier than flesh.

Words Are sexier Than fresh
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Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

Dark places Your faith Promises you The forgiveness
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We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Each die Little death Shame As humiliation
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Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

Have patience The lovers Will suffer
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Be careful With kindness Usually mistaken For weakness
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Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst.The absolute worst.

Love Best thing In life The worst
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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

Lives lived For love For art Happy band
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Gather experience,look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Gather experience A feeling Anxiety The sure
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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane,and let the sane be grateful.

The mad Find wisdom The sane Be grateful
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His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

His body His mind Different business Conscious instructor
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Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

Your flesh Killing Your spirit Forsaken yourself
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Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope.

Void come An end The tyranny Hope
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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companion, to feel they're not alone in the world.

For people They read My books Feel companion
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I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

Lucky life This generation Where everything Was possible
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Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

Psych yourself You're confident The world Be interested
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It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners.

A failure A marriage Partnership ends Certain number
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If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

People want To take Their lives Are helped
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Fiction makes Better job The truth
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Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

Dislike women Our capacity Not thinking Our happiness
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Words I play Some combination A chance
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Art The mirror Betrayed ideas
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

In university Greater part The law Tolerate fools
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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Laughter By definition Healthy
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Is terrible Destroy Person's picture The interest
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