"To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation."

-- Anita Brookner

#Writing Quotes #Moral Quotes #Negotiation Quotes

“It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.”
“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.”
“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.”
“Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.”
“Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.”
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

You may also like:

A. S. Byatt
Novelist
Barbara Pym
Novelist
Bernice Rubens
Novelist
Edith Wharton
Novelist
Julian Barnes
Writer
Kingsley Amis
Novelist
Margaret Drabble
Novelist
Penelope Fitzgerald
Novelist
Penelope Lively
Writer