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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Maya Angelou

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Oscar Wilde

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Alice Waters

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Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Salman Rushdie

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P.G. Wodehouse

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Milton Mayer