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• The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
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• I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
• I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
• The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under… — Margaret Atwood
• They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
• I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
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