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"There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life, when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"Let America first praise mediocrity even in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff"
James Joyce, Novelist
"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European"
James Joyce, Novelist
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age"
James Joyce, Novelist
"A nation is the same people living in the same place"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Nations have their ego, just like individuals"
James Joyce, Novelist
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire"
James Joyce, Novelist
"It's the job that's never started, takes longest to finish"
J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens"
J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"Our Generation has had no Great War, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
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