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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

- Tertullian Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

- Terry Eagleton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

- Virginia Woolf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

- Ursula LeGuin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

- Dean Inge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

- Eudora Welty Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

- Frederick Forsyth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

- Thomas More Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

- Jean Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The world is not to be put in order the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Consequences are unpitying.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

- Frank McCourt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

- George Washington Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

- Anthony Robbins Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

- Lyn Yutang Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

- Mercedes Lackey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

- Nancy Mitford Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

- Kazuo Ishiguro Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

- Katherine Mansfield Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

- Frank McCourt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

- Virginia Woolf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes