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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will. — Alberto Moravia

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia

If you want to keep the bad guys in check, make sure the good guys are armed. — Anne Fortier

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith. — Alberto Moravia

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say. — Alberto Moravia

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all. — Alberto Moravia

When you awaken, nature awakens, too. — Eckhart Tolle

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. — Alberto Moravia

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. — Alberto Moravia

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are. — Lady Gaga

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. — Edward Tufte

She could have flirted forever. It was just the things that came after flirting that she had no interest in. — Seanan McGuire

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is. — Alberto Moravia

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. — Alberto Moravia

I just watched this documentary on the mating habits of whiptail lizards and trust me, if those things can make it happen, you can too, my friend. — Robin Bielman

I think politicians really go with the tide. — Jimmy Carter

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. — Robin Hobb

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs. — Alberto Moravia

I've never liked playing golf. I prefer to be on the treadmill to keep in shape. — Robert Budi Hartono

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. — Alberto Moravia

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Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out. — Franny Billingsley

Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted. — David A. Bednar

Things don't change. We change. — Henry David Thoreau

If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come. — Harry Lennix

War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. — Alberto Moravia

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. — Roger Moore

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty] — Alberto Moravia

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia