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In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'


Jane Gardam
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The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Lion Feuchtwanger
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The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.


Claudio Monteverdi
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.


Oliver Hudson
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.


Tayari Jones
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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.


Laurell K. Hamilton
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
Lee Daniels
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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
Joan Didion
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.
Michael Specter
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I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
Norah Jones
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In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
Nancy Gibbs
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My morals are important to me.


Hunter Parrish
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Good morals lead to good laws.


Chuck Norris
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I'll never go against my morals.


Leona Lewis
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I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.


James Larkin
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The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.


Bille August
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The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.


Peter Stuyvesant
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