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Literary Historian Inspirational Quotes (5888)

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Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.
Emma Donoghue
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
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All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.
Valery Bryusov
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The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
C. S. Lewis
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
Van Wyck Brooks
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
Van Wyck Brooks
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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
Van Wyck Brooks
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
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The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck Brooks
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
Vance Havner
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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
Vance Havner
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
Vance Havner
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
Vance Havner
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance Havner
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
Vance Havner
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
Vance Havner
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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
Vance Havner
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