#author

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#due #exhort #government #i #king

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#did #entertain #guy #i #kidding

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#author #boyfriend #crush #dead #girl

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. ↗

— George Mikes

#conversation #course #educated people #england #greek

I've always had trouble with authority. ↗

— John Milius

#authority #had #i #trouble

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#authorization #before #compared #did #difference

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities. ↗

— Gary Neville

#being #clubs #concerns #english #english football