Quotes 41 till 60 of 177.
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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv -
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Every man is the author of his own life.
Moon Palace (2010) 15 -
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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