Novelists Quotes - Page 11

• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, Regret, Years

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Beauty

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• We accept the love we think we deserve.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Miserable

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Vulnerable, Atonement

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 03, 2014

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• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• I drink to make other people more interesting.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Life, Drinking

  "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

  George Orwell

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.191, Arcturus Publishing

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Every child has the capacity to be everything.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Children

  Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

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• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

  Russell Hoban

  Inspirational, Communication, People

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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