Novelists Quotes - Page 6

• Age is no guarantee of maturity.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Maturity

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.23, Bethany House

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• No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Littles, Matter

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.28, City Lights Publishers

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• You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

  Charles Bukowski

  Forgiveness, Running, Cheating

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• May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sacrifice, Joy, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 30, 2012

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• The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Art, African American, Revolution

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• There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Acceptance, Offering

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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• Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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  Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Hater, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011

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• Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Ruling, Tamed

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 30, 2012

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• It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

  Don Roff

  Time, People, Entering

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• Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Romantic, Cute Boyfriend

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Crazy, Mistake

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  I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

  William Golding

  Strong Women, Thinking, Men And Women

  YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Death, Letting Go

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

  George R. R. Martin

  Art, People, Voting

  GamePro Magazine Interview, April 08, 2003.

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• There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.51

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• One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Caring, Care

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Dream, Reading, People

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• An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, Men

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.240, City Lights Books

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Soul, Mind, Manipulation

  Ayi Kwei Armah, Gwendolyn Brooks (1991). “Very Young Poets”, Third World Pr

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• On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Memories, Imagination, Mind

  Patrick Kavanagh (2002). “No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology”, Columba Press (IE)

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• What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Party, Responsibility, Ideas

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• I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Reading, Way

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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