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All Quotes Collection
"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
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"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
51
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
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"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
50
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
37
"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."
48
"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."
47
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
41
"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."
41
"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
72
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
41
"With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence."
60
"Pride is a by-product of insecurity. And the more insecure a person is, the more monuments they need to build.There is a fine line between 'Thy kingdom come' and 'my kingdom come.' If you cross the line, your relationship with God is self-serving.You aren't serving God. You are using God.You aren't building altars to God. You are building monuments to yourself."
16
"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
63
"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
49
"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
43
"A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study."
53
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
57
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."
Life,
38
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
68
"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
48
"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."
38
"I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them."
40
"The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection."
42
"The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time."
28
"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."
30
"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity."
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"But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it."
30
"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
32
"These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable."
Time,
38
"They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of."
53
"Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of."
44
"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."
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