#author

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me. ↗

— Erich Segal

#death #love #story #beauty

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#finish #god #obligated #will

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. ↗

— John Conyers

#better #citizens #crisis #engage #fact

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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