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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. ↗

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me. ↗

— Albert Finney

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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority. ↗

— Theodore White

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. ↗

— William Goldman

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗