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"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."	Charles Caleb Colton
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."	E. L. Doctorow
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."	Albert Camus
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."	Sandra Cisneros
"I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog."	D.H. Lawrence
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."	A. J. Liebling
"I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare."	George Eliot
"I do not like to write - I like to have written."	Gloria Steinem
"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
"I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better."	George Burns
"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked."	Harold Bloom
"I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true."	Derek Curtis Bok
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"	Lewis Mumford
"I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune."	Jerry Della Femina
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."	Victor Hugo
"If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did."	Jerry Coleman
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Helen Adams Keller	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Henry Miller
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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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