#thor

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. ↗

— Brendan Francis

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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ↗

— Barney Frank

#authority #between #children #consensual #deep

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. ↗

— Max Frisch

#between #dealer #difference #horse #language

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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I think of myself as a very lazy author. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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