"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."

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"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

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"A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge."

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"The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke."

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"Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education."

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"Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"

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"Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth."

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"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."

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"I needed a new mystery."

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"Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is."

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"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."

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