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Wally Lamb quote: "I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones..."
I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love. Wally Lamb
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a... Steven Pinker
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"Absently he replied, "I was, once."And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep. Stephen R. Donaldson
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "But you looked much more like a fellow who had just realised..."
But you looked much more like a fellow who had just realised that he has been living on ideas that don’t pay. Jean-Paul Sartre
I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them Chinua Achebe
The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make.? I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had... A. Whitney Brown
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations . . . Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. Henry David Thoreau
Lily Tomlin quote: "All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should..."
All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin
A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..."The name is Honey," Miss Honey said."Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks. Roald Dahl
Arundhati Roy quote: "Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a..."
Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation. Arundhati Roy
Isn't there at lest a bloody light switch somewhere in this hole? Oh, to hell with it, I feel as if I've fallen into some far-fetched adventure story where the villians wear black eye patches and throw knives. Damn, damn, damn!" Meggie had already noticed that Elinor swore a lot, and the more upset she was the worse her language became. Cornelia Funke
Paulo Coelho quote: "The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that..."
The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being Paulo Coelho
In the years when I discoverd the Abb Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing. Umberto Eco
E. L. Doctorow quote: "You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the..."
You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed. E. L. Doctorow

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