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4391 Novelist Quotes

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Audience Best Best Way Laugh
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Always Company End Feel
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Books Everything Friends I Love
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Brought Continue Did Ever
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honour Long Prevails
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Blind Country Curiosity Goes
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Because Begins Father Growing
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Bad Good Husband Man
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
After Before Breakfast Ends
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Am I Am Man Money
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Bad Good Heart Memory
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Happens How Life Matters
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Always Good Good Marriage Happiness
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Everything Fat Goes Comes
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Because Dreams Grow Old
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Arrived Because Been Day
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Ever Free Interpretation Less
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

About Asked Been Cholera
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

America Way Life Fails
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Eat Bread Without Hope
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger Makes Thief Any
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The Secret Joy Work
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I am mentally bifocal.

Mentally Bifocal Am I
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Should Provide Old Age
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

Must Necessary Party Right
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Looks Picasso Sausage Someone
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

Act Any Fun Here
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Person Who Tries Live
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Growth Itself Contains Germ
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The Truth Without Speak
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The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
Critical Matrimony Period
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

About Anything Descend Earth
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Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Doing Everyone Find Out
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Don't Moods Accomplish Nothing
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

You Cannot Yourself Feel
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