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"I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward"
Ellen Glasgow, Novelist
"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"
Harper Lee, Novelist
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
"The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it"
Gail Godwin, Novelist
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off"
William Golding, Novelist
"You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"
Thomas Wolfe, Novelist
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up"
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something"
William Goldman, Novelist
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist
"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path"
Mary Webb, Novelist
"Books do furnish a room"
Anthony Powell, Novelist
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date"
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist
"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor"
Norman Mailer, Novelist
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend"
Robertson Davies, Novelist
"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies"
Laurence Sterne, Novelist
"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
Laurence Sterne, Novelist
"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war"
Philip Roth, Novelist
"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live"
Boris Pasternak, Novelist
"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"
Paul Theroux, Novelist
"It takes two flints to make a fire"
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist
"Life is painful, nasty and short... In my case it has only been painful and nasty"
Djuna Barnes, Novelist
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive"
Alan Paton, Novelist
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