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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
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"I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era."

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Italo Calvino Writer
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"Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement."

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James May Television presenter, journalist, and author
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"As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability."

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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten."

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