Authors and Their Words

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1. Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. Victor Hugo Alice Walker William Blake George Moore

2. One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. Aldous Huxley Eric Hoffer Oscar Wilde Charlotte Bronte

3. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. George Bernard Shaw G.K. Chesterton F. Scott Fitzgerald Jack London

4. In time we hate that which we often fear. Christopher Marlowe Jay McInerney Arthur C. Clarke William Shakespeare

5. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy George Eliot Willa Cather Henry Van Dyke

6. The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time; but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order. Eudora Welty Shelby Foote Ernest Hemingway Stephen Crane

7. Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. Harriet Beecher Stowe John Steinbeck Louisa May Alcott Herman Melville

8. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. Margaret Atwood John Grisham Arthur Conan Doyle Stephen King

9. There is but one categorical imperative, namely this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Jean-Paul Sartre Voltaire David Hume Immanuel Kant

10. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? John Updike J.R.R. Tolkien Harper Lee Henry James