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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough. ↗

— Gil Kane

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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

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Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. ↗

— Lee Child

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True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature. ↗

— Francis James Child

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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. ↗

— Julia Child

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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. ↗

— Julia Child

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