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"So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal." »William Seward Burroughs
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"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head." »Rita Rudner
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"Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." »John Ruskin
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"Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense." »Ingrid Weir
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"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." »Vartan Gregorian
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book." »Muriel Clark
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"book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible." »Al Jaffee
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it." »Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
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"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." »Jean Giraudoux
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004
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"“Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"" »Steve Maraboli
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher
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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." »Julius Henry Marx
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"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too." »Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
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"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." »Thomas Merton
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." »George Gordon Byron
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson
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"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous
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"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out." »Unknown
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." »Franz Kafka
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah." »Richard Bach
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"True friends are like diamonds precious but rare. fake friends are like fall leaves found everywhere." »Unknown
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