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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness."

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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes."

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George Will Political Commentator, Author
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"Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house."

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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
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"I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean."

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