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title: "9 Popular Work Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [“Plus, it was made by Zaxy, the company behind Smartifex, Brillicent, and other popular work enhancement drugs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annalee-newitz/plus-it-was-made-by-zaxy-the-company-behind-smartifex-brillicent-and/)

[Annalee Newitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annalee-newitz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/annalee-newitz-8659_business_plus-it-was-made-by-zaxy-the-company-beh_525949.jpg)

> [“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/the-notion-of-making-money-by-popular-work-and-then-retiring-to-do/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/logan-pearsall-smith-3950_art_the-notion-of-making-money-by-popular-wo_693136.png)

> [This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-lilla/this-is-an-accessible-work-of-philosophy-in-the-best-sense-sharply/)

[Mark Lilla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-lilla/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/mark-lilla-13300_concern_this-is-an-accessible-work-of-philosophy_2195978.png)

> [There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/there-are-two-sides-to-a-person-s-being-the-superconscious-and-the/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/208/frederick-lenz-8_buddhism_there-are-two-sides-to-a-person-s-being_1566189.jpg)

> [The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/the-notion-of-making-money-by-popular-work-and-then-retiring-to-do-2/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/logan-pearsall-smith-3950_art_the-notion-of-making-money-by-popular-wo_752263.png)

> [Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padmapriya-janakiraman/malayalam-actress-ann-augustine-director-v-k-prakash-writer/)

[Padmapriya Janakiraman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padmapriya-janakiraman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48d/padmapriya-janakiraman-5743_actress_malayalam-actress-ann-augustine-director_633180.jpg)

> [“Write as many books as you want, but remember that literature is never about quantity. Even the most popular works fade into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mouloud-benzadi/write-as-many-books-as-you-want-but-remember-that-literature-is-never/)

[Mouloud Benzadi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mouloud-benzadi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/mouloud-benzadi-2369_books_write-as-many-books-as-you-want-but-reme_1327849.jpg)

> [ “\[In high school\] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-mcleod-cormack/in-high-school-my-interests-outside-my-academic-work-were-debating/)

[Allan McLeod Cormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-mcleod-cormack/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/allan-mcleod-cormack-75191_academic_in-high-school-my-interests-outside-my-a_315468.png)

> [ “The resurrection of this once popular work \[Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea \] is a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-elvin/the-resurrection-of-this-once-popular-work-ping-jinya-s-forgotten/)

[Mark Elvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-elvin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/mark-elvin-51757_books_the-resurrection-of-this-once-popular-wo_2339656.jpg)

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