"It is often pleasant to stone a martyr,……" — John Barth

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her… — Jane Austen
• I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm… — Diane Ackerman
• I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact… — Jose Manuel Barroso
• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther… — Dennis C. Blair
• I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. — David Bowie
• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. — Charlotte Bronte
• Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of… — Geraldine Brooks
• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it… — Samuel Butler

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