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"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

- Dorothy Parker

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"As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full..."

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."

- Moses Hadas

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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist."

- Oliver Markus

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"? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about the work. Being it good or bad. A book might as well be hurt by a bad, poorly written review. That’s suc..."

- Ana Claudia Antunes

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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

- Sid Ziff

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