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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
Dorothy L. Sayers
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It is really irritating to work with irritating people
Joshua Ferris
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
Anne Tyler
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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
Jane Austen
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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
Jeanette Winterson
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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.
Sandra Cisneros
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The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson
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I'm very primitive I write with a pen.
Chinua Achebe
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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
T. S. Eliot
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Jane Austen
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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
Elizabeth Bowen
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
Carol Shields
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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
Alaa Al Aswany
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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
Alaa Al Aswany
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