Novelists Quotes - Page 7

• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

  Chris Lynch

  Way, Sometimes, Inconvenience

  Chris Lynch (2011). “Angry Young Man”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Girl, Confused

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

  George Sand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  H. G. Wells

  Motivational, Strength, Moving On

  "The Anatomy of Frustration". Book by H. G. Wells, 1936.

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

  Eudora Welty

  Positive, Happiness, Morning

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Strength, Stay Strong, Motivational Sports

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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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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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Travel, Memories

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  R. L. Stine

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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