A.L. Kennedy Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Writing Quotes

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.

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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

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What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

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When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

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Through discipline comes freedom.

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

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