Novelists Quotes - Page 16

• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

  Louise Erdrich

  Change, Native American, Growing

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Being Yourself, Want, Good Person

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Philosopher

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Knives, Grows

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Breakup

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• I am. I think. I will.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Philosopher, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

  Ismail Kadaré

  Change, Nature, Sacrifice

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• When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Justice, Suffering

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.434, Hamilton Books

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• The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.584, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Life, Respect, Nature

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• Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

  Athol Fugard

  Love, Anger, Inspiration

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• Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

  Karen Marie Moning

  People, Wise Words, Worst

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1099, Dell

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• I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

  Neil Gaiman

  Relationship, Break Up, Thinking

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Memories, Remembrance

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Love, Numbers, Phones

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, Burning

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House

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• There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Remember When”

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• The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

  Ayn Rand

  Greatness, Philosopher, Achieve

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.382, Hamilton Books

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