Angus Wilson
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing."
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Admirer
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Vikram Seth
Poet, Novelist
"Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others."
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"More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else."
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"With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one."
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"It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit."
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"One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers."
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"Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise."
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"For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers."
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