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Authors Quotes by John Updike
- The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
- Authors should be honored only for their works.
- The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
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- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
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- It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger
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- We must be authors of the history of our age. — Madeleine Albright
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- Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful… — Joseph Addison
- Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach
- The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — Albert Camus
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