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A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.
I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.
Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.
I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning.
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.
People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!
Hard roads are not opened by themselves; they are opened by some brave people!
Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.
A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.
All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!
Anything easy teaches you nothing! To learn something, have some difficulties!
By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Doors to beautiful things do not remain open forever. Be fast to enter inside!
He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.
Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!
The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!
The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!
Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!
When all is well in your end, it is not enough! All must be well in every end!
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.
Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.
Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.
Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.