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"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Read in order to live"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me"
Anatole France, Novelist
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion"
Anatole France, Novelist
"I decline to accept the end of man"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"
J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist
"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid"
J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist
"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"A good laugh is sunshine in the house"
William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist
"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end"
Truman Capote, Novelist
"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
"How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"It is always by way of pain, one arrives at pleasure"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
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