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4391 Novelist Quotes

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

Life Decisions Sense Avoid
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When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

Measure Jealousy Trouble
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We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

We Pretend Nothing Mind
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

Love People Things Eyes
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. .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments

Moments Time Alert Notice
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There's nothing as scary as the future.

Nothing Scary Future
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Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

Sarcasm Protest Weak
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Wars Generations Ignorant Heart
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We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

Peace Lives Bound Destruction
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Endures Love Death Endures
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Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Everything Evolve Perishes
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

Everyone Moment History Belongs
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Sad Regrets Integral Dreams
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When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.

You Love Something Way
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Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God

Always Prayers Night God
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So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all

More Stay Same Change
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Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Life Land Dead Love
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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Friendship Shortcomings Parents
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We are all born equally far from the sun.

We Born Equally Sun
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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.
Harm Aim Target Dream
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You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

You Think Right thing Moment
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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Special Gifted People World
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What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me

Deceived Happiness Peace World
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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves

Teenagers Today Free Accept
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We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Survive Moment Last one
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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art Space Breathing Spirit
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Growth is betrayal.

Growth Betrayal
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No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Act Private Applause
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Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Sun Moon Time
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Nature may be defined as that which exists without guilt.

Nature Defined Exists Guilt
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Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Critics Pastry
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams True Nature Incite
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If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

You Guts People Price
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

Want Write Book Head
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Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Everybody You Act Breath
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Cruel Meaning
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Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

Hope Premises Accidents Word
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing Criticism Fiction Poetry
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As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

Souls Cry Awaken Heaven
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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Easy Love People Memory
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Activity Creative Cares Right
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Write Shield Hiding Pain
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us

Children Creatures Mirrors Human
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Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Laws Ghosts Country Earth
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In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Churches Relation God Thirst
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Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

Part Human Verge Disgrace
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The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

Universe Machine By-products Death
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That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God

Love Disaster Guilt God
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Happiness Sacrifices Losses Betrayals
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We are most alive when we're in love.

Alive Love
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