Novelists Quotes - Page 11

• The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Light, Discovery

  The Guardian, June 3, 1988.

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

  Tamora Pierce

  Change, Way, Action

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

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• I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Caring, Touching

  FaceBook post by Richelle Mead from Apr 22, 2013

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• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Choices Made, Bravery

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.34, Penguin

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• I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Beautiful, Knowing

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.

  Catherine Marshall

  Love, Religious, Jesus

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• It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.

  Daniel Handler

  Change, Trust, Simple

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• Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

  A.J. Cronin

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

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• Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Addiction

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• You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Forgiveness, Believe, Stories

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Education, Jobs, Children

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

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• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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• But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.

  Tammara Webber

  Friends, Being Strong, Mean

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.283, Tammara Webber

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• I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Would Be, Pace, Able

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.211, A&C Black

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• Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

  Iris Murdoch

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Sea

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.139, Penguin

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• I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Future, Writing, World

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• Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

  Anna Gavalda

  Love, Relationship, Happiness

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.77, Penguin

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• Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

  Bruce Coville

  Love, Sympathy, Heart

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• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Every child has the capacity to be everything.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Children

  Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

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• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

  Russell Hoban

  Inspirational, Communication, People

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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