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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
Explore more quotes by John Henry Newman
"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
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