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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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