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4391 Novelist Quotes

if you want to improve the quality of life of a writer just give them money. Or pay their rent.

To improve The quality Life A writer
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Didn't know Bin Laden was killed for refusing to wear a mask.This is wild.

Was killed For refusing To wear A mask
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Well done to the Nigerian Bar Association for distancing themselves from this disgrace of a politician who along with his family delights in abusing power and being nasty.

Distancing themselves This disgrace A politician Abusing power
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The day we stop believing our suffering is more valid than the suffering of others and that everyone can feel pain, everyone can suffer, everyone faces adversity regardless of who they are, that day, we will be closer to something resembling justice or at least empathy.

Stop believing Our suffering More valid Resembling justice
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This obsession with treating people as representatives of their group helps no one.

This obsession Treating people As representative Their group
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If only writers everywhere could unionize so it would be impossible to do festivals, conferences and stupid panels without paying writers properly

Writers everywhere Could unionize Be impossible Do festivals
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If only religious Nigerians had the same desire to kill, hang, behead, anally rape the people who were actually violently ruining the country.

Only religious Same desire To kill Hang
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Muslims go their own shrines to pray to their god for success.Why shouldn't those of other religions? In this type of foolishness Nigerian Christians and Muslims are exactly the same.Intolerant.

Muslims Own shrines To pray For success
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. If you have to kill people who say things about your religion then your religion has no place in modern society.

Kill people Your religion No place Modem society
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Writing Reading Me Existing
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One must dare to be happy

One Dare Happy
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Everybody Careful Stumble Something
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Important Make up Mind One thing
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You have to know what you want to get it.

You Know Want Get
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Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life

Love Skillful Share Inner life
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Writer Eyes Paint Ears
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Silent Gratitude Use Anyone
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Art Literature People Accept
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Thing History Repeat Itself
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Money Buy Happiness Know
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry Rhyming Dictionary Seen
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Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Artist Work Plant Horticulture
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We have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.

We Tendency Judge Ourselves
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Poet Asks Admiration Believed
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

Characteristics Dream Nothing Surprises
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poet Liar Speaks Truth
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What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

What Style Complicated Simple
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Film Fountain Thought
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Living is a horizontal fall.

Living Fall
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live

Live Teach Death How
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you

Public Criticizes You Cultivate
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Art is science made clear.

Art Science Clear
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There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.
Thing Love Proof
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Poet Invent Listens
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I am burning myself up and will always do so.

I Burning Myself Always
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art Marriage Conscious
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Excruciating Unbeliever Spirit Religious
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Willing Tolerated Love Liberty
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Greatest Literature Dictionary Order
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

True Poet Scent Roses
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art Beautiful Fashion Time
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I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality

Mythology History Truth Reality
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

Uniform Hide Heavy heart Show
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Statues Great men Stones Lifetime
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music Something Feelings Motivated
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Self realizations Learn Unaware Instincts
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

True realism Revealing Habit Prevents
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

Fear Death People Love
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Yourself Life Death Work
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Poetry Hope Achieve Life
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