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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

- James Baldwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

- Edward Paul Abbey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

- Anthony (Tony) Robbins Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

- Aesop Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

- Aesop Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

- James Thurber Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

- Hermann Hesse Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.

- Alvin Toffler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

- Aesop Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

- Sarah Zettel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

- Elinor Glyn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

- Jack Vance Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

- Dick Francis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

- Ellis Peters Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

- Dean Koontz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

People living deeply have no fear of death.

- Anaïs Nin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Why are we so full of restraint Why do we not give in all directions Is it fear of losing ourselves Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

- Marcel Proust Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Dreams are necessary to life.

- Anaïs Nin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

- John Burroughs Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

- Dean Inge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes