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"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"A man is only as good as what he loves"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks"
Harper Lee, Novelist
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing"
Harper Lee, Novelist
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"
Harper Lee, Novelist
"Let your performance do the thinking"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life"
John Updike, Novelist
"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them"
John Updike, Novelist
"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are"
Gail Godwin, Novelist
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame"
Erica Jong, Novelist
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads"
Erica Jong, Novelist
"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
"A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
"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
"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
"My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder"
William Golding, Novelist
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved"
George Sand, Novelist
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness"
George Sand, Novelist
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