Joel Dicker Quotes & Sayings

#1. Lesson number two: Not only is glory ephemeral, but it also comes at a price. The

#2. She's fertile, docile . . . she'd give you a child every nine months! I'll teach her how to raise the children, and that way they'll all be the way I want them to be! Isn't that wonderful?

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#3. Love, love, always love! But what is love? It doesn't mean anything! Love is just a trick invented by men so they don't have to do their own laundry!

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#4. Friend, the cleaning lady, the bank clerk. But be careful:

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#5. They tipped over. A light went on in the house, and Harry

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#6. A piece of writing is never good," he told me. "There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before.

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#7. That's good. You see, boxing and writing are very similar. You get in the guard position, you decide to throw yourself into battle, you lift your fists, and you hurl yourself at your opponent. A book is more or less the same. A book is a battle.

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#8. LEARN TO LOVE YOUR failures, Marcus, because it is your failures that will make you who you are. It is your failures that will give meaning to your victories.

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#9. The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

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#10. Anytime you have doubts about what you're doing, go outside and run. Run until you can't run anymore. Run until you feel that fierce desire to win being born within you. You

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#11. You know what a publisher is? He's a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he's able to appropriate other people's talents.

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#12. Goldman, stop this nonsense, will you? I have looked at your file. I made a few phone calls.

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#13. Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.

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#14. Life is a long drop down, Marcus. The most important thing is knowing how to fall.

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#15. Find love, Marcus. Love gives life its meaning. You're stronger when you love. You're bigger. You go further.

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#16. I began to understand that glory was a Gorgon who could turn you to stone if you failed to continue to perform

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#17. Life generally doesn't have any meaning - unless you strive, every God-given day, to provide it with some.

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#18. IN OUR SOCIETY, MARCUS, the most admired men are those who build bridges, skyscrapers, and empires. But in reality, the proudest and most admirable are those who manage to build love. Because there is no greater or more difficult undertaking.

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#19. Marcus, do you know what is the only way to know how much you love someone?
No.
By losing them.

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#20. Love can hurt so much. All the same, you should not be afraid of falling, and especially not of falling in love, because love is also very beautiful.

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#21. Two things can make life meaningful: books and love ... I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

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#22. Because you have to keep them on tenterhooks until the end. It's like when you're playing cards: you have to hold a few trump cards for the final part of the game.

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#23. I don't like to dwell on regrets. They tell you that you have not come to terms with what you've done.

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#24. Whenever she wasn't with me, there was an emptiness inside me, a feeling that something was missing, which I had never experienced before - as if, once she had entered my life, the world could no longer turn properly without her.

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#25. Life is like a foot race, Marcus: There will always be people who are faster than you, and there will always be those who are slower than you. What matters, in the end, is how you ran your race.

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#26. Maybe that's what love is: hoping that one day things will be better.

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#27. Wish that I will succeed in life, I replied. And I thought that a shooting star, though it could be beautiful, was a star that was afraid of shining and was fleeing as far away as possible. A bit like me.

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#28. THE FIRST CHAPTER, MARCUS, is essential. If the readers don't like it, they won't read the rest of your book. How do you plan to begin yours?

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#29. Don't write in the name of friendship. Write because it's the only way to make this tiny, insignificant thing we call life into a legitimate and rewarding experience

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#30. Books are interchangeable: People want a story that excites them, relaxes them, entertains them. And if you don't give them that, someone else will - and you'll be history.

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