B Traven Quotes

#1. Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

Monica Ali

#2. The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

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#3. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. It would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.

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#5. Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

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#6. Vidocq and Allegra are holding hands on the small bed. I don't need to listen to their hearts or breathing. They're radiating tension like a microwave oven. Kasabian has gone back to his computer, trying to ignore all of this. Traven looks a little lost. Candy's not much better. I

Richard Kadrey

#7. The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

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#8. If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

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#9. Don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.

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#10. No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

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#11. In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#12. The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

William Goldman

#13. Traven stares at me. If eyes could scream, run home, and hide under the blankets, he'd be blind. Is

Richard Kadrey

#14. My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,

Christopher Hitchens

#15. I'm sorry you're angry" is NOT an apology.

Lisa Lutz

#16. I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator.

Rob Portman

#17. If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.

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#18. Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

Edward Abbey

#19. I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.

Anna Friel

#20. Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against
anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

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#21. He found the hard bud of her clit with his thumb and began rubbing in a circle. "Is that what you like?" he whispered in her ear. "A slow rub on that pretty little button? Or do you want my fingers, pumping in and out of your pussy?

Megan Erickson

#22. The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

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#23. I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

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#24. The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

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#25. And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

Dan Brown

#26. Odd how a man who never smiled could make her feel things she didn't know existed. He held her heart in his hands. From the moment she saw him, some thread had linked them together.

Jill Barnett

#27. Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.

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#28. The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni