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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. ↗

— William Vickrey

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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

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