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{{quote|''"Almost everything is imitation. The idea of ''The Persian Letters'' was taken from ''The Turkish Spy''. Boiardo imitated Pulci, Ariosto imitated Boiardo. The most original writers borrowed from one another."''|'''[[Voltaire (Creator)|Voltaire]]'''}}
{{quote|''"Marge, you're my wife, and I love you very much, but you're living in a world of make-believe! With flowers and bells and leprechauns and magic frogs with funny little hats!"''|'''Homer Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote|''"Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!"''|'''Homer Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote|''"A single, highly focused motivation--let's say "revenge," for example--can carry any number of novels; conversely, it can result in a clichéd story that employs eighty-three out of the 100 items on that list of "[[Evil Overlord List|Things I Wouldn't Do If I Were An Evil Overlord]]" one finds floating around the Internet. It's why that desire for revenge developed, and how that vengeance is enacted, that makes a story worth telling."''|'''Elaine Cunningham''' at [http://www.flamesrising.com/elaine-cunningham-interview/ Something New with the Dragon].}}
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