A. Datta > A.'s Quotes

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I value liberty above all else. Without liberty, no other value can be realized.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying
without affection.”
― Jane Austen

“I do not wish to disclose the real name of the woman I had married. The issue is the least likely to induce archaeologists to engage in heated debates. But the copper plaque bearing her etched name is also the canvas of my heart. I have difficulty imagining that that canvas or the name on it will someday cease to exist. But the eternal abode where it abides is beyond the reach of historians.
In this account I need a name for her—any name. So I'll call her Sisir or drops of dew because dewdrops are reminiscent of laughter as well as tears and because in dewdrops dawn's tidings melt into the morning.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Haimanti: Of Autumn

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“There will always be hopes and dreams to keep us going. There will always be something to look forward to, even if it’s only the knowledge that things will get better. There will always be love. To look for, to hope for, to dream about. Maybe not even romantic love. A job you love, a friend you love, an animal, or a thing, or even a book that will improve your life. There will always be something good coming.”
― Jaimie Admans, The Little Bookshop of Love Stories

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You shouldn't walk away from something that intrigues you”
― Lisa Renee Jones, If I Were You

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I think some writers write because they feel driven to do so or, for the few who make a living from it, because it’s a pleasant way to feed oneself. Me? I write because there’s just no thrill like finding out that I gave somebody a thrill. It’s a natural, gratifying, smile-generating, solar-plexus-stroking high. And I’m addicted.”
― Victoria Danann

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“They say love is blind, but in your case I’m assuming it’s also deaf, dumb, and completely brain dead.”
― Michelle Pillow-The Playfull Prince