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4391 Novelist Quotes

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Best Light See
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Judging Efforts Artist Abuse
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend

Feel Critical condition Treat Friend
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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Walk Brains Converse
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Idea Need Mood Write
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Always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.

Censor's Negative Opinion Truth
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Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.

Fame Honor Visit Work
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There is the risk you cannot afford to take,and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Risk Afford Take
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Leap, and the net will appear.

Leap Net Appear
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God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

God Handle Overestimate Underestmate
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The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Voice Original Strangled People's
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

Tenacity Talent Rules Day
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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Procastination Laziness Fear Forgive
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Thinking God's Will Dream
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity Moment Timeless
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Artist Produce Work Art
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention

Survival Sanity Delight Gift
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artist Visionaries Faith Creative goal
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The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Heart Creativity Experience Union
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Festivity Breeds Creativity. Rigidity Breeds Despair

Festivity Creativity Rigidity Despair
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We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Unexamined Life Worth Living
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Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Creativity Activity Hate Obsess
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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Recovery Priority Life
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Things Difficult Dare
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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it

Believe Begin Action Power
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Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Writing Act Listening Ego
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I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Roses Table Diamonds Neck
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If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Inspire Love Cause Fear
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The beginning is always today.

Beginning Today
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He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.

Feel Worth Greatness Fall
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Perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who have it, appear angelic

Perfect Happiness Attributes Angels
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Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Crimes Remorse Rest Death
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What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Stop Determined Heart Man
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My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Education Neglected Passionately Reading
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.

World Seceret Desired Divine
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Painful Mind Great Change
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Man Chooses Evil Happiness
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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Life Anguish Dear Defend
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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Solitude Consolation
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Contributes Mind Purpose
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Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Learn Misery Increase Own
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Live, and be happy, and make others so.

Live Happy
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The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Accidents Life Feelings Human nature
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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Beware Fearless Powerful
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The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Companions Childhood Power Mind
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Dreams Refuge Pleasure Free
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How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Dangerous Knowledge World Nature
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Invention Created Void Chaos
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I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Benevolent Misery Friend Happy
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Understand Men Good Hate
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