"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on faith   

"Let's face it, writing is hell."

Styron, William on writers and writing
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

Stoppard, Tom on beginning
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"?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

Paulus, Trina on risk
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"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"

Eliot, George on quarrels
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"The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief."

Barron, Frank on decisions
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"Too many lives are needed to make just one."

Montale, Eugenio on character   

"I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache."

Carroll, Lewis on courage
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"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping."

Hare, A. W. on caution
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

Burton, Sir Richard on travel
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"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on solitude
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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Haldane, John B. S. on universe
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"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."

Suso, Heinrich on suffering
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"The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks."

Voltaire on frankness
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is."

Lemmon, Jack on writers and writing
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"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."

Eastman, Max on poetry and poets   

"There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone."

SeVigne, Marquise De on anger
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

Weil, Simone on soul   

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life."

Weil, Simone on imagination
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch on perseverance   

"We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps."

Demille, Nelson on goals   

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on thoughts and thinking
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"Genius is eternal patience."

Michelangelo on genius   

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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

Trevelyan, G. M. on books - reading
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"Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity."

Frye, Northrop on poetry and poets   

"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

Pythagoras on friends and friendship
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"But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."

Orwell, George on spirituality
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"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"

Proust, Marcel on decisions
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"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

Bierce, Ambrose on religion
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"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony."

Sabatini, Rafael on humor   

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"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trying
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"Telling someone the truth is a loving act."

Pancoast, Mal on truth
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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

Pasternak, Boris on physics   

"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."

Kraus, Karl on words   

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

Dahlberg, Edward on autobiography