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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. ↗

— Matthew Green

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Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. ↗

— John Burke

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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. ↗

— Robert Bridges

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