Novelists Quotes - Page 10

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

William Gibson

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

Louise Erdrich

Love, Life, Strength

"The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

John Green

Book, Reading, Understanding

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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

Love, Birthday, Family

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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

August Strindberg

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

Tawni O'Dell

Inspirational, Success, Dream

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The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Brendan Behan

Peace, War, Bombs

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Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

God, Baby, Children

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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Ayn Rand

Honesty, Men, Being Honest

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Ayn Rand

Mean, Rights, Liberty

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Ayn Rand

Happiness, Happy Life, Emotional

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

Natalia Ginzburg

Love, Success, Education

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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Mark Twain

Country, Usa, People

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I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

Bapsi Sidhwa

Inspirational, Life, Country

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Mark Twain

Religious, Kindness, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Alfred de Musset

Inspirational, Time, Attitude

Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.

W. W. Jacobs

Funny, Dream, Humorous

"The Monkeys Paw". Short story by W. W. Jacobs, 1902.

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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

J. K. Rowling

Happiness, Happy, Book

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Ernest Hemingway

Appreciation, Work, Recognition

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster

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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Sinclair Lewis

Names, Usa, America

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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Time, Giving Up

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Besties before testes.

Gena Showalter

Funny, Best Friend, Testicles

Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.980, Harlequin

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Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Paulo Coelho

Inspirational, Hater, Wisdom

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011

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