Make Them Quotes
1685 quotes by 1320 authors
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
— Samuel Butler
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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we…
— Italo Calvino
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love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity…
— Stephen King
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I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about…
— Nora Roberts
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I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the…
— Robertson Davies
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Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down…
— Dorianne Laux
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer…
— Sarah Kane
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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
— Margaret Atwood
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Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and…
— Neil Gaiman
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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
— Harlan Ellison
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...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not…
— Eve Ensler
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If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
— Paulo Coelho
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I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant…
— Wilkie Collins
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It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and…
— Nick Hornby
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So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that…
— Sherwood Smith
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When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't…
— Andy Warhol
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