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A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it's true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. - O. Henry

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing - Kingsley Amis

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common - Jane Austen

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney - Douglas Gerrold

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life - Charlotte Bronte

There was a time when I heard eleven operas in a fortnight - which left me bankrupt and half-idiotic fora month - J.B. Priestley

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing and trying to improve him - J.B. Priestley

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle - Jane Austen

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

The actor who took the role of King Lear played the king as though he expected someone to play the ace - Eugene Field

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Some widowers are bereaved; others, relieved.

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