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Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you are living in a mad world

My whole world's shattered ... I have to build it up again, searching for a God I can believe in

The poets had always had words ready for the end of the world

Though our world's coming tomorrow, who knows when tomorrow will come?

The world was once all miracle. Then everything started to be explained

The thing is to sow the ideas widely. Then when the time comes for turning them into action the world of the believer will be ready

I had gone out into the world and the world was making me bleed

Too much world and too little time

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something, too, of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality

The page I had written was tolerable, and the readers of the world asked no more

Tne narrow world of the writer, the pettiness of his enmities

The past is dead and the world outside the U.S. doesn't exist

Those of you who aspire to be novelists, do please remember that the mechanics of the craft are more important than angling for truths or changing the world

Revolutions are usually the work of disgruntled intellectuals with the gift of the gab ... They go to the barricades in the name of the peasant or the working man. For "intellectuals of the world unite" is not a very inspiring slogan

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

If he does not fight, it is not because he rejects all fighting as futile, but because he has finished his fights. He has overcome all dissensions between himself and the world and is now at rest... We shall have wars and soldiers so long as the brute in us is untamed.

Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work,

There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

John le Carre

If a man write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap ... the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all the world's managers were laid end to end, it would be an improvement.

God's retirement plan is out of this world.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden on it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens

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