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Famous quotes by Novelists

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
Aldous Huxley
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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life"
Richard Bach, Novelist
Richard Bach
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"Once we have a war, there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time"
Jack London, Novelist
Jack London
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"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class"
Jack London, Novelist
Jack London
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"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Leo Tolstoy
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"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Leo Tolstoy
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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot"
Anatole France, Novelist
Anatole France
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"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom"
Anatole France, Novelist
Anatole France
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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
Miguel de Cervantes
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"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
Miguel de Cervantes
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"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
Toni Morrison
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"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
E. M. Forster
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"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"
James Joyce, Novelist
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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
Gore Vidal
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"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
J.D. Salinger
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"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life"
Walter Scott, Novelist
Walter Scott
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"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Joseph Conrad
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"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it"
Harper Lee, Novelist
Harper Lee
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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist
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"Life is a zoo in a jungle"
Peter De Vries, Novelist
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"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little"
Edna Ferber, Novelist
Edna Ferber
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