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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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I am essentially a loner. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

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I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ↗

— William Blackstone

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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. ↗

— Maurice Denis

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Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Ray Blanton

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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. ↗

— Carl Andre

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