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4391 Novelist Quotes

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Wish Women Power Men
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Life Obstinate Clings Hated
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Elegance Inferior Virtue
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But knowledge isn't meant to be held as a weapon in a battle to defy our fates and manipulate life over death.

Knowledge Weapon Life Death
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

True Feeling Justifies Cost
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite

Education Society Opposite
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Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers

Darkness Birth Light Flowers
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We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.

Fear Change Painful Growth
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Art must be nourished by faith, the faith of an equal.

Art Nourished Faith Equal
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It is never a waste of time to be outdoors, and never a waste of time to rest, even for a few hours.

Waste Time Rest
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Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

Routine Prison Freedom Time
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The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

Moral Dilemma Peace
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self

Loneliness Poverty Self Solitude
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become

Articulate Dangerous Words
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Dare Frightening Strange Prove
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Words Powerful Suspects Mind
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Think Hero Behave Human being
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Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

Love Hate Gifts Laughter
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Partner Love Relationship Feel
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Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.

Success Knowledge Failure
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Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Childhood Branch Cartography
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Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

Generation Messiah Failed Deserve
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Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Entertainment Pursuit Quality Human life
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Long life wore away everything that was not essential.

Long life Everything Essential
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Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

Take care Force Powerful Imagination
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..the heart is an organ of fire.

Heart Organ Fire
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Death means you are in the third person.

Death Means Third person
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Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Love Small Eye Needle
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Sleep Prison Boy Friends
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if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

You Plunder Past Abscence
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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Knot Heart Wish Untie
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From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Point Find Lose Souls
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Novel Mirror Road
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

Expanded Tears Reduced
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Words Loved Clarity Reason
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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

Events Lifetime Damage Influence
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

Danger Violence
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Sentence Novel Trust Human
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Love is the use one makes of another.

Love Use Another
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...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Art Hide Save Protect
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Perception Write View Someone
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Sadness is very close to hate.

Sadness Close Hate
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Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Time World Truth Opinion
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The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
Love Kill Second Word
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The future belongs to crowds.

Future Belongs Crowds
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Where words fail, music speaks.

Words Fail Music Speaks
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Learn Taken Seriously Laugh
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Bother Philosophy Sick Need
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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beauty Eye Holder Bear
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Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

Just Charity Corruption Home
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