Quote by Samuel Butler
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insi

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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Christianity
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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Dreams
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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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Seasons
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I would always be that same maddening, monstrous mixture of pedantry, egoism, politeness, selfishness, kindliness, sneakiness, larkiness, sociability, loneliness, ambition, ordered calm and hidden intensity. I would cover my life with words. I would spray the whole bloody world with words. – Stephen Fry (b.1957), Moab is my Washpot #INFJ

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Writing

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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Writing

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

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The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute. – Jonathan Davis

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Music

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper

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Happiness

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Adversity

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. – Buddha

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