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4391 Novelist Quotes

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious

Witness Lies Miss Obvious
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Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Live Life Way Want
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Judge not that ye be not judged

Judge not
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Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
Quitting Answer Life Unfair
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Life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

Life Despise People Help
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Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact

Rumor Credibility Repeated Fact
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Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.

Ethics Determined Caught Violated
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In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

Life Truth Voive Story
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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Reading Successful Pursuit Happiness
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Children Moment Parents Rule
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Pride Sin Moral Greatest
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything

Way Writer Behave Time
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We are formed by what we desire

Formed What Desire
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

You Love Crudeness Mankind
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Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Good habits Worth Fanatical
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

Forget Rumors Story True
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Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic

Death Wait Enjoys Flair
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This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Writer's Learn Imagine Sounds
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Self-hatred Worse Loneliness
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

Everybody Dies Life
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there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Safety Found Love Virus
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It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

Right Deceive Someone Hurt
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.

Brain Poison Heart
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses

What Accept Time People
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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

Need Lose Sight Priorities
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Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.

Confuse Faith Belief Intellectual
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Imagining Something Better Remembering
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People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

People Ask Questions Answers
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Live Long Caricatures Ourselves
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If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough.

Strong Lose Miss Want
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored

Rivals Unmanned Ignored
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I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

Learned Consequences Actions Present
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Get Obsessed Stay
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
Hardwork Great art Life Serious
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If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it

Care Life Love Live
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

Religious Freedom Practice Choice
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

Happy Woman Men Crazy
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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

Responsibility Fault Change
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!

Watch out People Religious Mean
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…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.

Consequences Sex Memorable Act
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Logic is relative

Logic Relative
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Half my life is an act of revision.

Life Act Revision
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You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

You Opportunity World Stop
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When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

Time See People Matter
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Life is serious but art is fun!

Life Serious Art Fun
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

Kids Perfect People Grownups
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else

You Grow End Beginning
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Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Afraid Look Coward Reason
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The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Clearly World Obliged Exist
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

Begin Thinking Memorable Someone
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