"Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good."

-- A. N. Wilson

#Irises Quotes #Influence Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.”
“Good God, you donâ€™t give up.â€ â€œNope.â€ I laughed, couldnâ€™t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. â€œIâ€™m sure there are plenty of girls who want to go out on a date with you.â€ â€œThere are.â€ â€œWow. Modest arenâ€™t you?â€ â€œWhy should I be?â€ he shot back. â€œAnd I want to go out on a date with you. Not them.”
“Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now thatâ€™s a blessing.”
“The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know â€” the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to beâ€¦. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.”
“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
“I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.”

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