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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.


Mel Brooks


#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.


Van Wyck Brooks


#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.


Thomas Cavendish


#authority #honour #men #see #strangers

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.


Henry Steele Commager


#authority #criticism #dangerous #equate #find

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.


W. Somerset Maugham


#authors #british #humor #business

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.


Bill Forsyth


#business #decisions #emotional #instead #interesting

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.


Frederick Forsyth


#diversity #freedom #internet #new #offers

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.


Franz Grillparzer


#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?


Philip Gilbert Hamerton


#author #ever #more #much #observed

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.


W. Averell Harriman


#act #authorization #barriers #breaking #congress






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