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8803 Writer Quotes

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Action Alive Author Before
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Anyone From Time To Time Gentleman Heroic
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Above Beasts Does Every
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Because Born Character Created
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Creation Even Her Higher
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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Believe Going Illusion Like
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Able Affairs Alone Casual
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
History Ideas Mankind The History Of
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Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Action Confounded Drama Philosophy
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Achieve Form I Wish Myself
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When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Humanity Love Satisfied Say
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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Count Feel Illusion Like
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Just Language Life Matter
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Different Universe Asking Bigger
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
What They Thing Answer
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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We cannot create what we can't imagine.
We Cannot Create What
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Come Celebrate That Something
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Alone Bread Creature Lives
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Day Each Harvest Judge
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friend Gift Give You
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Business Continue Fail Good
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Care Cultivate Eyes Garden
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Cruelest Lies Often Silence
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Between Come Difference Dinner
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Change Changes Does Essence
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Accept Actually Challenge Full
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Any Apart Fame Gods
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Dead Finds Language Prepared
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Become Becoming Capable End
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship Marriage Police Recognized
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Everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone Lives Selling Something
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Foreign Lands Only Traveler
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Cannot Clock Fortune Frightened
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Necessary Only Perhaps Politics
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Ashamed Know Parliament
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Business Calls Devotion His
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Body Come Crying House
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Cases Dies Hard Man
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Banquet Consequences Down Everybody
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action Appears Good Inevitable
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Bottled Poetry Wine
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Another Endless Happily Leading
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No man is useless while he has a friend.

Friend He Man Useless
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Almost Friend He Indispensable
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Liberty Money Pay Price
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Enemy Friends Suppressed Truth
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Full Happy Kings Number
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