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Quotes by Novelist
"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends."
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
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"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
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"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"
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"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."
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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
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"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded-not to weep, not to mourn, I was yet too calm for that, but-mechanically to take off the wedding dress, and replace it by the stuff gown I had worn yesterday, as I thought, for the last time. I then sat down: I felt weak and tired. I leaned my arms on a table, and my head dropped on them. And now I thought: till now I had only heard, seen, moved-followed up and down where I was led or dragged-watched event rush on event, disclosure open beyond disclosure: but now, I thought."
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"That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community."
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"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."
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"I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt and I could shatter into strange, razor-sharp shards."
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"I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways."
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"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
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"Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine..."
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"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
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"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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