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sincerely from the author"s soul." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an
author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward
and forward, or it falls to the ground." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives
with, insists on boring future generations." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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| "Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find
yours." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go
to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours." | |
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John RUSKIN
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| "Copy from one, it"s plagiarism; copy from two, it"s research." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained
like a madman in the padded cell of his breast." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "I would rather be right than president." | |
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Henry Clay
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| "I"m a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an
author. She wrote one book." | |
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Mickey Spillane
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| "If you steal from one author, it"s plagiarism. If you steal from
two, it"s research." | |
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John Burke
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| "Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works
respectfully quoted by other learned authors." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from
struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame"s eternal dumping
ground." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with
his blood." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author,
even for their own good." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Some judge of authors" names, not works, and then Nor praise nor
blame the writings, but the men." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a
mother who talks about her own children." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "The best time to plan a book is while you"re doing the
dishes." | |
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Agatha Christie
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| "The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people
who can write know anything." | |
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Walter Bagehot
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| "We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as
from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps
more." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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