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- Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an…
- By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
- When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
- It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
- I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,…
- A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless…
- No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes…
- I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
- Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
- When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not…
- Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or…
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love…
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
- This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
- Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most…
- The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change…
- I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I…
- I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either…
- They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden