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Nicolas Godin Musician
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"It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German."

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Mary McCarthy Author
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"As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer."

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