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4391 Novelist Quotes

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

Funny how Little politeness Can change People's mind
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Is impossible Discourage Real writers
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Every man A king Has someone Look down
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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
You earn But how Spend it That fixes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.

People read Fiction Emotion Not information
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I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

I think An error Believe Any need
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Major tragedies More discomforting Hearty affection Old friends
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

So earnest About morality I hate Essentially immoral
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

Many people Are eager Things Wish one
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

One thing More disconcerting Than intelligent Demanding love
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

A man Takes A drink Takes another
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

Love One thing Can really Lighten all
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Important part Living The pondering Upon it
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

Not understand Ministers presume Deliver sermons Appointed hours
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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

Nothing whets The intelligence Passionate suspicion Develops
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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

The person Experienced light Darkness Peace
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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

No guilt Is forgotten The conscience Still knows
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In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd,It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

In chess Intellectual game Where randomness Is excluded
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Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Freedom Not possible Without authority Into chaos
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Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.

Art Bring us Consolation Individuals
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Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

My pity Been stronger My will
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Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.

A man Found himself Is nothing This world
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We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Are happy Things conform Unhappy People
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Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you’ll discover your hidden resources.

Maybe everything So hard Life Much easier
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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.

Is never One realize Means something To others
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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Nothing On earth More pressure Human mind
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There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

More vindictive More underhanded Little world Big one
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It remains an irrefutable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Irrefutable law History That contemporaries A recognition
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Soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

Soul Mysteriously elastic Single event Big enough
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I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

I realized No point Denying oneself A pleasure
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Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone’s destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

Exalt yourself By devoting To others Enrich yourself
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Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

Gone further All honesty Have done My lies
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Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Individual Death Phenomenon Nature
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But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

Like Bitter Heart
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If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

You Know Hard time Going
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead

When Going back Sense Ahead
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

Young Vision Love Life
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Freedom Affluence Opposes Life
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

Christian Gospel Peace Love
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
World Time Love Death
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Man Machine Culture Pestilence
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

Music New World Being
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Knowledge Ability Feel Think
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Waking Dream You Life
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When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Rise up Joyful Fall Regret
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

We Truth God Task
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The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

Crisis Community Corruption Character
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This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

Religion Beauty Goodness World
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Care Earth Responsibility Hope
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

People Food Health Attention
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