Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately."
Italo Calvino
Writer
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
"Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed."
Rita Mae Brown
Author, Activist
"Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers."
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"All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist."
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