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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English. ↗

— Harry Browne

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful. ↗

— Michael Caine

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I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me. ↗

— Phil Collins

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

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