Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. (Alexandre Dumas)

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Alexandre Dumas

Related topics

living novel paper story wound covers

Related quotes

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. View quote
Angelina Jolie
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. View quote
Winston Churchill