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4391 Novelist Quotes

The best wines take the longest to mature.

Best Longest Mature
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.

Profoundest Distances Geographical
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Duty Pretending Trivial Critical
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

Trouble Life Everyone Mystery
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Duty Greatest Evil Good
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...there are times when silence is a poem.

Times Silence Poem
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Wealth Learn Control Financially
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Races Planet Intelligent Stupid
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Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time Road Room
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Science disembodies; art embodies.

Science Art Embodies
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Death is the room that is always empty.

Death Room Empty
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There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

True Leisure World Equally
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The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Privileges Knowledge Cost Ignorance
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Marriages Passion Destroy Want
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Love Mystery People Identity
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There is no limit to desire but desire's needs

Limit Desire Needs
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The writer is more servant than master of his story.

Writer Servant Master Story
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Only very odd people don’t realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.

People Truth Value
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Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence of any thing is infinite.

Religious Values Moral Infinite
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The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

Way World Writer's block
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Fate often enough will spare a man if his courage holds

Fate Spare Man Courage
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Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign

Art Creepy First Sign
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

Art Stories Moment Human experience
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Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

Mastery Instant Power Time
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
Art Way Thinking Reality
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

Subject Fiction Emotion Beliefs
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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Self pity Addictive Pleasure Reality
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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Read Novel Page Images
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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

Limiting Imagination Writing Know
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So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age

Childhood Feels Happens Age
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Believe Energy Grief Lead
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers

Noblest Hopes Grow Pursue
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One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel

Crazy Write Great novel
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Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.

Capable Writing Fiction Mind
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When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

People Serving Life Meaningless
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When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

Child Love Calm Lived
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Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

Great Nationally Leadership Supported
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You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Live Life Today Yesterday
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Some people have more guts than brains.

People Guts Brains
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Every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.

Company Sins Succeed World
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When you have no future, you live in the past.

You Future Live Past
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They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can’t. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won’t change, and she does.

Woman Man Believe Change
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Fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don’t show it.

Fear Ally Afraid Case
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Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.

Fear Friends Destroy Uncontrolled
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Love yourself,..,for the sake of your better future

Love Yourself Better Future
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Poverty is a great equalizer

Poverty Great Equalizer
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Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

Compromise Yourself
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If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Stupid You Tough
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Critics should find meaningful work.

Critics Meaningful Work
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Life is short..Live to the fullest..

Life Short Live Fullest
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