William Nicholson Quotes
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We read to know that we are not alone.
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Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise,…
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Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking…
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Use your power gently.
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I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
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We are the slaves of slaves
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All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness…
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He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do…
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To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more…
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Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He…
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God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence…
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If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong
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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the…
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Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
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A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
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There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
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My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
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