Quotes - Miloš (trumanb) (Belgrade, Serbia) Showing 1-25 of 25

#1

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#2

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

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#3

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: anti-christian, atheism, bible, religion

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#4

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#5

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#6

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

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#7

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

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#8

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#9

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!”
― John Fante

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#10

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

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#11

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

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#12

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.”
― Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom

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#13

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

tags: writing

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#14

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#15

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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#16

“Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#17

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#18

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#19

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

tags: happiness

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#20

“Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals”
― Akif Pirinçci

tags: animals, humans

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#21

“Žao mi što nisam rođen ili malo gluplji, ili malo pametniji. Gluplji da ne primećujem neke stvari oko sebe, ili pametniji da ih primećene, ne komentarišem.”
― Žarko Laušević

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#22