A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

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GERTRUDE STEIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS

Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR

They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS

I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS

There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS

I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS

No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS

He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS

I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR

Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso...
DEBORAH KERR Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a...
SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridic...
LIBBA BRAY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
EDWIN EDWARDS For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
SARAH J. MAAS I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.
SARAH J. MAAS And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel...
SARAH J. MAAS I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
MITCH ALBOM I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.
SARAH J. MAAS She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want...
SARAH J. MAAS The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
ROB LIANO If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE

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BEN STEIN I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the be...
BEN STEIN My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over ...
BEN STEIN I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy...
BEN STEIN The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you wan...
BEN STEIN Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even ...
BEN STEIN You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, eve...
BEN STEIN It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the...
BEN STEIN Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...
BEN STEIN To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u...
BEN STEIN A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are...
BEN STEIN If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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