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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."

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Tamer El Said Filmmaker
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"Every film has a political side. It's something that you cannot ignore. Politics is a part of everything, it's how we speak, how we perceive one another, how we hold this interview: Everything is politics. But it's a very different thing to just stuff your film with political messages."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one."

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