"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

Trust, Art, Effort

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"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

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"I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own."

Anthony Collins, English Philosopher

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's. 'Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,' said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, 'because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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