"I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick."

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Graham Joyce

#People Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Language Quotes

“There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.”
“Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.”
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my fatherâ€™s had become, during his earlier years of a millerâ€™s life.”
“I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.”
“Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.”
“Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.”
“I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.”
“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

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