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| I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. | | Elvis Presley | | |
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| I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. | | Samuel Johnson | | |
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| If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all. | | John Keats | | |
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| If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. | | Anton Chekhov | | |
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| Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. | | Joseph Conrad | | |
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| It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. | | Salvador Dalí | | |
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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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| Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present. | | E. W. Howe | | |
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| Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. | | Jorge Luis Borges | | |
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| No sane man will dance. | | Cicero | | |
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| Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers. | | T. S. Eliot | | |
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| The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. | | Tom Clancy | | |
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| The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his revenge with the pen; while the murderer, less hypocrtical, takes it with the sword. | | Christopher Spranger | | |
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| There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. | | George Bernard Shaw | | |
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