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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
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"Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone."

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Dante Hall Football Player
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"I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive."

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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
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"And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness."

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time."

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Keshub Chandra Sen Theologian, Reformer
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"Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all."

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