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"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion"
James Joyce, Novelist
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails"
James Joyce, Novelist
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance"
James Joyce, Novelist
"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination"
James Joyce, Novelist
"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"I just don't want to die without a few scars"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"It is the ability to choose which makes us human"
Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act"
Truman Capote, Novelist
"All literature is gossip"
Truman Capote, Novelist
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
"People never notice anything"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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