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Franz Kafka : If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Franz Kafka : " I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Orhan Pamuk : " The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I can’t do normal work as other people do. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it. I write because I want others, the whole world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey. I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but—as in a dream—can’t quite get to. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Laura Nyro : " I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Robert Byrne : " Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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William Lyon Phelps : " The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Madeleine L Engle : " A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. And there were many reasons. One was that it was supposedly too hard for children. Well, my children were 7, 10, and 12 while I was writing it. I'd read to them at night what I'd written during the day, and they'd say, "Ooh, mother, go back to the typewriter!" A Wrinkle in Time had a female protagonist in a science fiction book, and that wasn't done. And it dealt with evil and things that you don't find, or didn't at that time, in children's books. When we'd run through forty-odd publishers, my agent sent it back. We gave up. Then my mother was visiting for Christmas, and I gave her a tea party for some of her old friends. One of them happened to belong to a small writing group run by John Farrar, of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which at that time did not have a juvenile list. She insisted that I meet John any how, and I went down with my battered manuscript. John had read my first novel and liked it, and read this book and loved it. That's how it happened. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Simone De Beauvoir : " Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Psychiatrists have told me that they give The Second Sex to their women patients to read, and not merely to intellectual women but to lower-middle-class women, to office workers and women working in factories. 'Your book was a great help to me. Your book saved me,' are the words I have read in letters from women of all ages and all walks of life. If my book has helped women, it is because it expressed them, and they in their turn gave it its truth. Thanks to them, it is no longer a matter for scandal and concern. During these last ten years the myths that men created have crumbled, and many women writers have gone beyond me and have been far more daring than I. Too many of them for my taste take sexuality as their only theme; but at least when they write about it they now present themselves as the eye-that-looks, as subject, consciousness, freedom. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Ralph Waldo Emerson : " What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Lois McMaster Bujold : " I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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James Branch Cabell : " I had not been two weeks in the United States before someone said to me: "Well, at any rate, there is Cabell." That was a new name to me. I was given Beyond Life to read. My excitement during the discovery of that perverse and eloquent testament was one of the happiest moments of my American stay. I spent then a wild and eccentric search after his earlier masterpieces. Inside the cover of Beyond Life there were the titles of no less than fourteen books. I could see from the one which I held in my hand that Mr. Cabell was no careless writer. He had been writing then for many years and he was unobtainable! "No, he has never had any success," a bookseller told me. "No one ever asks for his books." That situation is now changed. There are, I imagine, a great many more persons in the United States of America asking for Jurgen than are likely to obtain it. That good, at any rate, an idiotic censorship has done. " # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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Franz Kafka: " There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness." # Patience # Arts and Artists # Laziness

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Franz Kafka: " Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within." # Friends and Friendship

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Franz Kafka: " Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." # Youth # Happiness # Beauty

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Franz Kafka: " "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true."" # Bores and Boredom

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Franz Kafka: " From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." # Goals # Freedom # Power

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Franz Kafka: " A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die." # Understanding

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Franz Kafka: " Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Bureaucracy # Love

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Franz Kafka: " I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy." # Self-knowledge # Happiness # Unhappiness

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Franz Kafka: " You are free, and that is why you are lost." # Freedom

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Franz Kafka: " In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." # Poetry and Poets # Science and Scientists # Love

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