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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Human Every Own Author
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Analyst Authority Believe Event
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Admire Author Beautifully Business
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Any Authority Citizen Governing
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority Humble Individual Questions
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Answer Authority Bound Consider
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

About Author Book Key
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I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Authors Books Exactly Guys
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Author Find Get Go
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Fiction Author Chaos Chronological order
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Tone Mind Gifted Author
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Author Everywhere God His
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

Actor Author Burden Combine
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God is not the author of confusion but is the author of peace.

God Author Confusion Peace
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As a married woman, you are under the authority of your husband. You are not a slave, but make sure you honour, befriend him and perform your marital roles so there won’t be any crisis.

Married woman Authority Husband Slave
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

Adult All People Authority Blanket
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The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Author Becoming Consequently Figure
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God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

God Author Bible Truth
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Nobody Author Producer Own life
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The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Author Battle Could David
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For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Authority Doctor Plumber Never questioned
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Remember that you are in charge! Use the authority that you have

In charge Authority Remember You
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.

The author Salvation Responsible The way
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
One kind Good book Leave you Asking
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.

History A novel People The author
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further urge the authorities in the United States of America to intensify their efforts to ensure the total elimination of all forms of discrimination based on race or ethnic origin.

The authorities To intensify Efforts Ensure
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How do we manifest the life of God when we are “keeping safe” with everyone else from a virus we have received the authority to heal.

Manifest The life God Keeping safe
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The authority Who teach An obstacle To learn
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A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response

Books Author's Reader's Response
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I also call on the authorities at the sub-national level who have not done so, to domesticate the Child Rights Act for the sake of the future of our children.

The authorities Sub-national level The future Our children
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We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain

We Authors Woes Griefs
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent

Fiction Autobiographical Author Talent
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The language of the devil is WICKEDNESS. Not grammar. So when you are dealing with him don’t be a gentle man. RESIST him forcefully With the authority that Christ has given you

The language The devil Is wickedness Not grammar
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Read Feel Steps Author
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Language Characters Effect Author
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

Reader Author's Intent Reality
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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Worthy work Author Art Kid
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