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4391 Novelist Quotes

Let some word reach my ears and touch my heart

Word Ears Touch Heart
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I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.

Think Good life Live Fools
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Works Imagination Children Time
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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

Made Man's Labour Worth
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No man is good enough to be another's master.

Man Good Enough Master
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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

Want Change Society Happy life
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

One Life's Jewels Strung
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Want Art Education Freedom
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If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.

Others See Vision Dream
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Nature ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...

Nature Man Ugliness Beauty
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Wherever nature works, there will be beauty.

Nature Works Beauty
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

Work Embodiment Dreams Form
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Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Tomorrow Cross Own Rivers
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Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
Boundless Risk Pay Gain
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Free men Live Simple Pleasures
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The soul attains.

Heart Desires Soul Attains
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Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Art Man's expression Joy Labour
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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I’ll help you. We shall not be here very long so let us help one another while we may.

Going Way Help Long
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Simplicity Life Misery Foundation
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Man Work Mind Soul
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We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

We Dreams Bear Truth
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Terrible Nothing Wait
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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Life Intend Make Perfect
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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life Disease Death Birth
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It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Unhappiness World Small Men
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We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We Once Alone See
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

Strange Complicated Avoid Feel
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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Forget Secret Youth Memory
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Modesty Reward Life Exploited
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

Courage Fairest Adornment Youth
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Melancholy Secret Reality Desires
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Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Never Complicated Serve Living
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No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Soldier Chances Trusts Luck
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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little

Kiss Life Precious Little
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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Everyone Saves Kills Someone
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Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Our Knowledge Life Death
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
Anything Settle Money Cheap
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Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

Good Ill Life Risk
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Nothing Mirror See World
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I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.

Thought Everyone Against War
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Serenity, the calm daughter of tolerance

Serenity Calm Tolerance
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Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

Agressor Peace World Races
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Love should not be polluted with friendship

Love Polluted Friendship
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Comfort Skin Someone Love
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I used to fly a lot in my sleep. For a while I stopped flying. Last night I flew again. So vividly.I woke up happy.

To fly My sleep Stopped flying Flew again
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Now we carry out mini genocides and massacres and only engage each other only through xenophobia and DSTV.

We carry Mini genocides Massacres Only engage
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The fear of poverty in Nigeria's quasi middle class has more dangerous long term social effects than the poverty of its extreme poor.

The fear Poverty Middle class More dangerous
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I love this boldness. They are now trolling citizens. It is like some sick game.

I love This boldness Trolling citizen Sick game
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May the hustle for food not make us destroy everything we have worked for.

The hustle For food Destroy everything Worked for
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There is no law that prevents you from doing a parody. Even in Nigerian copyright law parody is is considered fair use.

No law Prevent you A parody Copyright law
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