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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

---Irish Proverb

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 "Every first draft is perfect because a first draft's only job is to exist..."

--Unknown

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 My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

---Kevin Smith

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 Learn as much by writing as by reading.

--Lord Acton

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 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

---Bertha Calloway

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 Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

---J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

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 "You'll never be ready. Just Start!"

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