"Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher."

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John Banville

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“I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.”

Source : "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. March 3, 2011.
“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”
“Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.”
“good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?”
“It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.”
“The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.104, Open Road Media
“I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist”
“I was big and fat and had weird parents.”

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