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I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. ↗

— Irene Peter

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ↗

— Plato

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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. ↗

— Plautus

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I've been a workaholic since I was 18. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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