Top 39 Julien Green Quotes
#1. A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green
#2. [On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?
Patti Davis
#4. Hulk Hogan, you are a household word but so is garbage and it stinks when it gets old too.
Jim Cornette
#5. I finally know that joy does not come from avoiding a problem or having someone else deal with it for you. Joy comes from overcoming a problem or simply learning to live with it while being joyful.
Jim Stovall
#6. What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.
Julien Green
#7. Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.
Sebastian Faulks
#8. I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'
Gretchen Rubin
#10. The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.
Julien Green
#11. When I write, I bring joy in my readers face
In my face, peace and complete happiness
But hardly I give any such reflection
During those times, I am in pain
A Sick person who is insane, mad and dead
Santosh Kalwar
#12. A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions
Julien Green
#13. The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
Julien Green
#14. A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
Julien Green
#15. I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
Julien Green
#16. I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Julien Green
#17. We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?
Sarah Palin
#18. If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.
Julien Green
#19. Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
Julien Green
#20. The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green
#23. I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.
Gary Busey
#24. To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.
Pope Gregory I
#25. Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Julien Green
#26. I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.
Julien Green
#27. Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
Julien Green
#28. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
#29. Lick hand. Sprinkle salt. Do the shot. Suck the lemon.
Gemma Burgess
#30. Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.
Julien Green
#31. A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.
Julien Green
#32. Would you really have ... ?" said Julien.
"Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures."
"But you are one!"
"I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.
Simon R. Green
#33. Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
Warren Buffett
#34. I was static, standing on the platform, watching train after train go by, wishing I knew which one to be on.
Renee Carlino
#35. I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
Abby Wambach
#36. Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
Julien Green
#37. Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
Julien Green
#38. You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.
Julien Green
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