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"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."	Dean Gooderham Acheson
"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)"	Douglas Noel Adams
"'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."	Æschylus
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."	Edward Albee
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay."	Brian Aldiss
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."	Saul David Alinsky
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."	Eric Anderson
"Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."	Hans Christian Anderson
"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance."	Jean Anouilh
"All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword."	Julie Arabi
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Aristotle
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."	Isaac Asimov
"From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."	Isaac Asimov
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."	Sir Francis Bacon
"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."	Joan Baez
"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it."	James Arthur Baldwin
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."	Sir James Matthew Barrie
"Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood."	Georges Bataille
"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."	Thomas Berger
"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down."	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
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Leo Tolstoy	Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman
Lloyd Garrison	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Twain	Mark S. Hertzog	Martin Gore
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maxim Gorky
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