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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
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Life stand still here.
Virginia Woolf
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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
Naguib Mahfouz
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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
T. S. Eliot
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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
Oscar Wilde
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Well, Bud, he said, looking at me, I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?
William Faulkner
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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
Franz Kafka
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And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I am not at all in a humour for writing I must write on till I am.
Jane Austen
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
Oscar Wilde
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Oscar Wilde
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Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].
Oscar Wilde
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.
Ayelet Waldman
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When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.
Chinua Achebe
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