N Quotes
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“Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.”
Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
“Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.”
“Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.”
“Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.”
“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”
Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
“Novels, some Dickens, The Bell Jar, some geeky pop-science books, a few music books, a few parenting manuals, Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, some stuff on climate change, and a large hardback called Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.”
“Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.”
Source: Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)
“Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.”
“Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.”
“Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.”
“Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.”
“Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.”
“Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.”
“Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.”
“Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.”
“Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.”
“Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon.”
“Novelties please less than they impress.”
“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.”
Source: Novelty: Four Stories
“Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.”
“Novelty gives immortality and nobility provides a halo of glory to that immortality.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.”
“Novelty in all things is charming.”
“Novelty in patent law is mathematical, but only to a discerning mind.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.”
“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.”
“Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.”
“Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“Novelty is the standard price of sensual connection. However, this price keeps rising like inflation, for good reasons. So that you will keep seeking fuller expression of the sensual life you were meant to live.”
“Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.”
“Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.”
“Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.”
“Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Novelty of outcome + Social Approval of that outcome = fake creativity”
Source: The Genius Famine: Why we need geniuses, why they’re dying out, and why we must rescue them
“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly and precisely, with immense assurance building, building; a voice too far off for him to hear, but speaking. ("Novelty")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.”
Source: The spectator
“Novelty wears off when you are not totally devoted to the limitless expansion of your sensuality.”
“Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.”
Source: An Art of Living
“Novembar je mesec star, ali vrlo visok. Kad stavi šešir na glavu, onda dodiruje tavanicu neba i vetar nema gde da mu odigne šešir. Zato se vetar sa velike visine spusti na zemlju i ljutito počne svojim mnogobrojnim rukama da diže sa glave šešire i kape prolaznika. Kad vetar podigne uvis tri šešira i tri beretke i jedan kačket i dvadeset i tri žuta lista, onda se odljuti i počne da se igra. Tada vrati glavama tri šešira i tri beretke i jedan kačket, ali pošto dvadeset i tri žuta lista ne može da vrati granama, polako ih spusti na travu i tako tka jesenji žuti ćilim. Novembar je uvažen gost na zemlji i zato gazi po žutim tepisima išaranim poznim jesenjim ružama i georginama.”
Source: Iz jednog džepa
“November 11, 2018 ...(2+0+1+8= 11)
11:11:11
When you see 11:11, it is a spiritual message to remind you that you are the creator of your own reality and you need to take responsibility for it. Your current situation is the result of your past thoughts and actions. By taking a proactive approach, you can become aware of what you think, what you say, and what you do in order to completely take charge of your life.”
“November 12, 1954 Unarticulated time is not measurable; strictly speaking, where there are no events, there is no time.”
Source: Spandau: The Secret Diaries
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“November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.”
“November 1st, All Saints Day,
Dawned crisp and bright,
Golden leaves and burned-out husks of fireworks,
Lay strewn in the grass by the smouldering bonfire.”
“November 22nd, 1963, was the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination. It was also the last day that America had a Catholic President until the election of Joe Biden in 2020. The gap will officially end with his inauguration in January 2021.”
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”