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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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I would always be that same maddening, monstrous mixture of pedantry, egoism, politeness, selfishness, kindliness, sneakiness, larkiness, sociability, loneliness, ambition, ordered calm and hidden intensity. I would cover my life with words. I would spray the whole bloody world with words. – Stephen Fry (b.1957), Moab is my Washpot #INFJ

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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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, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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