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Voltaire

"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

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"As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!"

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"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."

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"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."

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"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

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"Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore..."

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"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

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"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."

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"Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence, many epic tales are pretty much epic crap."

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