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"Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose"
Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist
"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Love is a game in which one always cheats"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class"
Jack London, Novelist
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
"The past is never dead. It's not even past"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong"
Leo Rosten, Novelist
"Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"At the side of the everlasting Why is a Yes, and a Yes, and a Yes"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse"
James Joyce, Novelist
"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together!"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
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