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| Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. (Frank Zappa) |
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| This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. (Dorothy Parker) |
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| I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. (Lord Brabazon) |
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| [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. (Al Capp) |
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| Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly) |
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| From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. (Groucho Marx) |
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Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people. (Adrian Mitchell) |
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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) |
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| All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. (Bobby Knight) |
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| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark Twain) |
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| I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. (Samuel Goldwyn) |
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| I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles) |
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| Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. (Mark Twain) |
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| Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. (Ronald Reagan) |
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| The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Albert Einstein) |
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| Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. (Thomas Berger) |
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| The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain) |
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| This book fills a much-needed gap. (Moses Hadas) |
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| Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. (Moses Hadas) |
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| Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx) |
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| Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein) |
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| I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. (Groucho Marx) |
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| I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. (Solomon Short) |
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| There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 preface) |
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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) |
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