The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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