Unless Quotes
5260 quotes by 3413 authors
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
— Albert Einstein
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Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to…
— George S. Patton
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There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for…
— Hillary Clinton
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I never cheat unless you count the girls I cheat on
— Drake
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
— James A. Baldwin
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Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story…
— V. S. Pritchett
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When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored…
— Daniel Quinn
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I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it…
— Robert Rankin
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what…
— George R. R. Martin
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Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police…
— Stephen King
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There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad,…
— Robertson Davies
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
— Anthony Hope
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Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what…
— Ayn Rand
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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
— Truman Capote
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There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.
— Walter J. Ong
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Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock,…
— Judith Krantz
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I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than…
— Charles Dickens
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