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"Great art isn't about decoration - it's a different language that can both touch our hearts, and open our minds."
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"I like the lemon meringue pie but I don't like the way Americans leave out the 'r' at the end of a word."
— Frank McCourt
Literature1930–2009
"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
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