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Famous quotes by Novelists

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
Charlotte Bronte
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"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
Charlotte Bronte
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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
Charlotte Bronte
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"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
Saul Bellow
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"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
Harper Lee
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
Elie Wiesel
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"The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it"
Gail Godwin, Novelist
Gail Godwin
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"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
Ivan Turgenev
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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe"
Peter De Vries, Novelist
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"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
William Golding
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"You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
Malcolm Bradbury
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"All of life is a foreign country"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
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"Friendship and money: oil and water"
Mario Puzo, Novelist
Mario Puzo
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"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"
Thomas Wolfe, Novelist
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"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up"
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist
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"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path"
Mary Webb, Novelist
Mary Webb
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"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents"
H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist
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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist
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"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something"
William Goldman, Novelist
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"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go"
Hermann Hesse, Novelist
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"Books do furnish a room"
Anthony Powell, Novelist
Anthony Powell
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"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies"
Laurence Sterne, Novelist
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"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
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"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date"
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend"
Robertson Davies, Novelist
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""Work and wait", "work and wait" is what God says to us in creation"
J. G. Holland, Novelist
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"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor"
Norman Mailer, Novelist
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"Nothing fails like failure"
Margaret Drabble, Novelist
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