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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4584)

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
Victor Hugo
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
Victor Hugo
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
Victor Hugo
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
Victor Hugo
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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
Mahatma Gandhi
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
Charles de Gaulle
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
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The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
Elizabeth Smart
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Pico Iyer describes his writing as intimate letters to a stranger, and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.
Terry Tempest Williams
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There is no path to peace peace is the path.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
Edmund White
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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
Mahatma Gandhi
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That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.
Vivian Gornick
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Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.
Vivian Gornick
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Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped the significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew--and I knew it was important to know--that Papa worked hard all day long.
Vivian Gornick
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