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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

#beside #change #could #first #kissed

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. ↗

— David Moranis

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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less

No authority is higher than reality. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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The wisest have the most authority. ↗

— Plato

#most #wisest

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. ↗

— Iggy Pop

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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

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