Novelists Quotes - Page 13

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Charles Bukowski

Funny, Suicide, Drinking

Charles Bukowski, “The Suicide Kid”

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Franz Kafka

Bird, Cages, Chaos

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Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Neil Gaiman

Inspirational, Future, Cherish Every Moment

Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

Clive Cussler

Inspirational, History, Luck

Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Terry Pratchett

Funny, Humorous, People

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Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Christopher Barzak

Life, Positive Thinking, Understanding

Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam

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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

Love, Death, Circus

Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

Funny, Life, Motivational

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

C. S. Lewis

God, Christian, Atheist

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Jennifer Weiner

Love, Failure, Learning

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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss

Love, Cute, Romantic

Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Inspirational, Book, Reading

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

Aldous Huxley

Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Travel, Moving, Book

"The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, September, 2003.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Oscar Wilde

Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

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You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski

Inspirational, Life, Death

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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

Ayn Rand

Life, Money, Atlas

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

God, Faith, Christian

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Neil Gaiman

Unanswered Questions, Answers, Want

"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Terry Goodkind

Character, Men, Intelligence

Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.56, Head of Zeus

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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Kurt Vonnegut

Inspirational, Sad, Regret

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press

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Real love never fails.

Karen Kingsbury

Love, Real, Failing

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In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

Marjane Satrapi

Hurt, Revenge, Stupid

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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Nora Roberts

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Relationship, Women

W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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