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"If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.” – Václav Havel
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Winston Churchill
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. – Elizabeth Bowen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again. – Rogers Turrentine
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry
"Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery." - Amit Ray from the book Meditation. – Amit Ray
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel. – Andr Maurois
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. – Edward Teller
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. – Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. – Unknown
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. – Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! – Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. – Henry Miller
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. – Kurt Vonnegut
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. – A. C. Benson
As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies. – Paul Sadler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. – Raymond Chandler
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. – William Shakespeare

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