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Prosaist Inspirational Quotes (18188)

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain
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Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.
Ray Bradbury
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
Haruki Murakami
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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
James Joyce
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
Dante Alighieri
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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
Jeanette Winterson
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In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.
Irvine Welsh
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Honore de Balzac
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore de Balzac
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
Haruki Murakami
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
Jeanette Winterson
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Weese, she would whisper, first of all. Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei.
George R. R. Martin
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All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.
Isaac Asimov
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Man yields to death and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.
Thomas Love Peacock
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
George R. R. Martin
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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.
Andrzej Szczypiorski
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Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.
John Lennon
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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
Leo Tolstoy
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
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You know what I should do? Hoshino asked excited. Of course, the cat said. What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.
Haruki Murakami
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Kindness can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.
George Saunders
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
Marcel Proust
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