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"The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading." »Archibald MacLeish
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"Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish." »Isaac D?Israeli
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"Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author." »Martin Luther
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"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." »Seneca
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"Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows." »Goethe
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"I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author." »Evelyn Waugh
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"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it." »Paul Fussell
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"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote
Romeo and Juliet
, he never would have written
Macbeth
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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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"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
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"author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." »Montesquieu
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." »Abraham Lincoln
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"There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on us are not our due, we are not angry with the author?s insincerity." »Feltham
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." »Joseph Addison
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"Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." »Hebrews 122 Bible
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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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"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought." »Pierre Bayle
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"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds." »Thomas Higginson
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"Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot." »Robert Altman
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"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name." »Aldous Huxley
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"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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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"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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"A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago." »Dorothea Brande
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