"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction……" — John le Carre

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• In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
• Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds… — Allan Bloom
• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food,… — Andrea Bocelli
• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. — Daniel J. Boorstin
• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places… — Anthony Bourdain
• It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look… — Alan Alda
• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any… — Albert Camus
• I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting… — Nick Cave
• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the… — Marc Chagall
• You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going… — Chris Christie
• People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic. — Pamela Anderson
• In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is… — Aberjhani

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