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Quotes by Novelist
"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."
68
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
68
"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."
68
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."
68
"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind."
68
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
67
"They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad."
67
"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
67
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
67
"Remember that there is onlyone important time and is Now. The present moment isthe only time over which we have dominion. The mostimportant person is always the person with whom youare, who is right before you, for who knows if you willhave dealings with any other person in the future. Themost important pursuit is making that person, the onestanding at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuitof life."
67
"I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again, forever."
67
"Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows."
67
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
66
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
66
"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."
66
"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand--that and such hope as I bring."
66
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
66
"The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart."
66
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
66
"Let my country die for me."
66
"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."
66
"In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike."
66
"Besides, I seemed to hold two lives-the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."
66
"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?"
66
"Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you."
66
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
66
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
66
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
66
"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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