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«Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.»
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
«Necessity is the author of change»
«There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.»
«He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death»
«One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.»
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Morality
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«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Reading,
Thinking
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