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“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.”

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“Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.”

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Book:Books

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“The book looked doomed, assailed on all sides by those who'd see it superseded by the synthetic-new and those who didn't give two shiny ones. With the recession forging ahead with renewed vigour, bookselling too was going the way of papyrus, taking with it what was left of Richard's self-esteem, his beer money and his comedic persona.”

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“YA doesn't get librarians fired!”

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Book:Walkaway

Source: Walkaway

“Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more bitter than the sea—and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night.”

Voyages Joseph Conrad

Book:Youth, a Narrative

Source: Youth, a Narrative

“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")”

Russian Literature Russian Revolution Joseph Conrad Russian Author

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited”

Complexity Duality Writing Craft Joseph Conrad

Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

“And, don't you see, the terror of the position was not in being knocked on the head - though I had a very lively sense of that danger, too - but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. I had, even like the niggers, to invoke him - himself - his own exalted and incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground of floated in the air.”

Individualism Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!”

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Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with others.”

Motivational Growth Self Help

Book:The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

Source: The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not. A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.”

Nature Strange Joseph Conrad

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness