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"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down."	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."	A. J. Liebling
"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam."	A. Whitney Griswold
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."	Abraham Maslow
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."	Albert Camus
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."	Alexander Hamilton
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."	André Maurois
"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."	André Maurois
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Aristotle
"Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'"	Art Buchwald
"A metaphor is like a simile."	Author Unknown
"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out."	Author Unknown
"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."	Author Unknown
"'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."	Æschylus
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."	Baltasar Gracian
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."	Benjamin Franklin
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."	Benjamin Disraeli
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"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
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."	Bruce Jenner
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Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Disraeli	Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Brian Aldiss	Bruce Jenner
Catherine Drinker Bowen	Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte
Clive Staples Lewis	Colin Campbell	Cyril Connolley
Dean Gooderham Acheson	Derek Curtis Bok	D.H. Lawrence
Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Samuel Johnson	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
E.B. White	Edna Ferber	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Albee	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Emily Dickinson
Eric Anderson	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene Kennedy
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.	E. L. Doctorow	Florence Nightingale
Fran Lebowitz	Francis Bacon	Franz Kafka
F. H. Bradley	Garrison Keillor	Gene Fowler
George	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Bataille	George Frost Kennan	Gerald R. Ford
Gloria Steinem	Gustave Flaubert	G. Norman Collie
Hans Christian Anderson	Harold Bloom	Harry Emerson Fosdick
Helen Adams Keller	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Henry Miller
Indira Nehru Gandhi	Isaac Asimov	Isaac Disraeli
Isabel Colegate	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jack Lemmon
James Abram Garfield	James Arthur Baldwin	James Earl Jones
Jane Welsh Carlyle	Jean Anouilh	Jerry Coleman
Jerry Della Femina	Jim Davis	Joan Baez
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Cheever	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gargin	Joseph Conrad	Josh Billings
Jules Renard	Julie Arabi	J. F. Boyse
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
Meg Chittenden	Micheál MacLiammóir	Napolean Hill
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Omar Khayyám	Peter Brodie
Peter Cochrane	Peter Kropotkin	Phillip K. Dick
Phillips Brooks	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ring Lardner	Robert Heinlein	Robertson Davies
Robert Anson Heinlein	Russell Lynes	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Saul David Alinsky	Shusha Guppy
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren	Stephen King
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Berger	Truman Capote	T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot	Van Wyck Brooks	Victor Hugo
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	W. Somerset Maugham	Willa Sibert Cather
William Orville Douglas	Wilson Mizner	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
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