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"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."	Marcel Proust
"I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter."	Marcel Proust
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."	Mark Twain
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press."	Mark Twain
"Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use."	Mark Twain
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."	Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?"	Matthew Clayfield
"Journalism is literature in a hurry."	Matthew Arnold
"Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'"	Nachman of Bratslav
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."	Napoleon Bonaparte
"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."	Napoleon Bonaparte
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it."	Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."	Oscar Wilde
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."	Oscar Wilde
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."	Ring Lardner
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."	Robert Frost
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."	Robert Frost

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