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François-René de Chateaubriand on Writing

1768–1848 France

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The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.

Les Natchez (1826)

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