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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it. — Camilo Jose Cela
- Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. — Camilo Jose Cela
- When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again. — Camilo Jose Cela