- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10719/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10719/ <![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11554/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11554/ <![CDATA[Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11553/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11553/ <![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11110/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11110/ <![CDATA[Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11048/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11048/ <![CDATA[Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10726/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10726/ <![CDATA[Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13444/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13444/ <![CDATA[For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10124/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10124/ <![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1331/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1331/ <![CDATA[They always win who side with God.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41447/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41447/ <![CDATA[For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42600/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42600/ <![CDATA[A book should be luminous not voluminous.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42598/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42598/ <![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42590/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42590/ <![CDATA[The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42580/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42580/ <![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42577/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42577/ <![CDATA[A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42576/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42576/ <![CDATA[Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4496/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4496/ <![CDATA[The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42645/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42645/ <![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4489/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4489/ <![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4490/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4490/ <![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4491/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4491/ <![CDATA[I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4493/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4493/ <![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4499/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4499/ <![CDATA[Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4511/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4511/ <![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4519/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4519/ <![CDATA[There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4525/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4525/ <![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42573/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42573/ <![CDATA[To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42572/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42572/ <![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42571/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42571/ <![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42570/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42570/ <![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42607/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42607/ <![CDATA[The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15941/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15941/ <![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15915/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15915/ <![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4232/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4232/ <![CDATA[They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4231/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4231/ <![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1458/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1458/ <![CDATA[Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16002/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16002/ <![CDATA[I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30321/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30321/ <![CDATA[You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29104/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29104/ <![CDATA[To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27926/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27926/