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Prosaist Inspirational Quotes (18189)

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In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty.
George Saunders
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Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.
Rainbow Rowell
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Romain Rolland
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
Oscar Wilde
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You're mine, she whispered. Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
George R. R. Martin
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What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.
Andrea Camilleri
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
John Lennon
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
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That moment, she told Cath, when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.
Rainbow Rowell
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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
Clifford D. Simak
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A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...
Richard Bach
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The heart is the real fountain of youth.
Mark Twain
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Andre Gide
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Andre Gide
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Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Andre Gide
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
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Do not scorn little victories.
Andre Gide
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