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"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it." — Ugo Betti

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A. J. Liebling	9
Abbe de Villiers	1
Ada Leverson	1
Agatha Christie	27
Agnes Repplier	14
Alfred de Musset	3
Alfred Jarry	9
Alfred Polgar	1
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Anita Loos	13
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Anna Sewell	1
Anne Frank	19
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	37
Anne Shaw	1
Annie Gottlieb	2
Anthony Hope	4
Anya Seton	2
Anzia Yezierska	4
Arthur C. Clarke	27
Arthur Conan Doyle	22
Athol Fugard	1
Axel Munthe	1
Ayn Rand	49
Barbara de Angelis	23
Barbara Ehrenreich	24
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	11
Bede Jarrett	2
Benjamin Constant	1
Bernard De Voto	2
Beverly Jones	1
Brenda Ueland	5
Brian W. Aldiss	3
C. Northcote Parkinson	12
C. W. Ceram	1
Carlos Castaneda	4
Carolyn Heilbrun	1
Catherine Drinker Bowen	5
Chapman Cohen	1
Charles Caleb Colton	75
Charles de Lint	21
Clarence Day	8
Claude Simon	2
Clifton Paul Fadiman	13
Clive James	7
Colin Wilson	5
Colleen McCullough	1
Cynthia Heimel	5
Dale Carnegie	50
Damon Knight	1
Dean Koontz	4
Denis Waitley	68
Doris Lessing	21
Dorthea Brande	8
Dottie Archibald	1
Douglas Adams	46
Edith Hamilton	10
Edmond de Goncourt	3
Edwin Percy Whipple	2
Eileen Caddy	10
Elbert Hubbard	67
Eleanor Farjeon	1
Elizabeth Fishel	2
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	5
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	17
Ellen Key	10
Elmore Leonard	3
Elsa Maxwell	7
Emil Ludwig	2
Emma Lee	1
Enoch Powell	1
Eric Ambler	1
Eric Hoffer	104
Erle Stanley Gardner	1
Ernest Bramah	1
Esther Dyson	3
Fannie Hurst	3
Flann O'Brien	5
Florence King	13
Florida Scott-Maxwell	6
Frances Marion	1
Francine Du Plessix Gray	1
Francois de La Rochefoucauld	143
Frank Herbert	24
Frederic Morton	4
Freya Stark	5
Friedrich Hebbel	1
Gail Rubin Bereny	1
Gail Sheehy	10
Garrison Keillor	23
George Mikes	3
George Savile	1
George Villiers	4
Georges Bataille	15
Gerald Brenan	9
Gerald F. Lieberman	8
Gilbert Highet	4
Gilbert K. Chesterton	124
Giorgos Seferis	5
Glenway Wescott	2
Grace Paley	1
Guy Davenport	1
Guy de Maupassant	3
H. L. Mencken	157
Han Suyin	1
Hannah More	11
Harlan Ellison	2
Harriet Ann Jacobs	1
Harriet Lerner	1
Harriet Martineau	9
Harry Golden	2
Harry Levin	1
Helen Hoover Santmyer	1
Helen Rowland	57
Henri B. Stendhal	11
Henry James	29
Henry Reed	1
Herman J. Mankiewicz	2
Hermann Broch	1
Holbrook Jackson	8
Hortense Calisher	1
Hugh Walpole	3
Ingrid Bengis	1
Irene Peter	2
Irving Howe	3
Isak Dinesen	10
Izaak Walton	10
J. B. Priestley	19
James MacGregor Burns	6
Jan de Hartog	1
Jan Morris	10
Jan Myrdal	1
Jane Austen	38
Jane Harrison	4
Jane Lazarre	1
Jane Smiley	2
Janice Rule	1
Jean Stafford	1
Jill Eikenberry	2
John Aubrey	1
John Cheever	22
John Hay	1
John Hillaby	1
John Lyly	7
John Milius	1
John O'Hara	6
John Perry Barlow	8
John Ruskin	77
Jonathan Swift	70
Joseph Addison	74
Joseph Joubert	33
Joseph Wechsberg	2
Josephine Hart	2
Joy Williams	1
Judith Clabes	1
Julian Barnes	4
Julien Green	1
Karin Boye	1
Karl Kraus	35
Kate Millett	1
Kate Seredy	1
Kathryn Hulme	6
Keith Waterhouse	2
Laurence J. Peter	48
Lawrence Durrell	22
Leon Edel	3
Leon Uris	1
Leslie Jeanne Sahler	1
Lewis Grizzard	3
Liz Carpenter	3
Logan Pearsall Smith	46
Louis-Ferdinand Celine	10
Louise Bogan	2
Louise Erdrich	3
Madame de Stael	14
Malcolm De Chazal	10
Malcolm Muggeridge	16
Margaret Oliphant	8
Marge Piercy	4
Margery Allingham	3
Margot Bennett	1
Marilyn Ferguson	6
Marilyn French	13
Marilyn vos Savant	4
Mario Vargas Llosa	7
Marion Zimmer Bradley	2
Marjorie Holmes	4
Mark Helprin	2
Mark Russell	5
Mark Rutherford	2
Marsha Sinetar	2
Mary Astell	1
Mary Austin	1
Mary Hemingway	1
Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft	3
Mary Wilson Little	4
Mary Wortley Montagu	22
Maurice Hulst	1
Michael Dorris	1
Michel De Certeau	5
Milan Kundera	34
Molly Haskell	2
Monica Baldwin	3
Moses Hadas	4
Nancy Thayer	2
Napoleon Hill	57
Niccolo Machiavelli	48
Nicolas de Chamfort	29
Nikos Kazantzakis	4
O. Henry	1
Octave Mirbeau	1
Oliver Wendell Holmes	96
Orison Swett Marden	63
Ossie Guffy	1
P. G. Wodehouse	23
Pat Conroy	3
Patricia McKillip	1
Patricia Meyer Spacks	2
Paul Dickson	1
Peggy Noonan	12
Peter McWilliams	15
Philip K. Dick	7
Philip Wylie	3
Poul Anderson	2
Publilius Syrus	63
Quentin Crisp	38
Raicho Hiratsuka	1
Ray Bradbury	22
Raymond Chandler	33
Rex Stout	1
Richard Aldington	1
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	25
Richard Francis Burton	1
Rita Mae Brown	27
Robert A. Heinlein	42
Robert Aitken	2
Robert Bloch	2
Robert Burton	9
Robert J. Ringer	3
Robert James Waller	2
Robert Louis Stevenson	66
Robert Ludlum	1
Rod Serling	4
Roger Ascham	1
Rudyard Kipling	43
Sally Kempton	1
Samuel Pepys	9
Sean O'Faolain	1
Sheila Ballantyne	1
Shere Hite	1
Sholom Aleichem	5
Simone de Beauvoir	25
Stanislaw J. Lec	22
Stanislaw Lem	6
Stella Benson	1
Steven Soderbergh	1
Stuart Chase	6
Susan Faludi	1
Suzanne LaFollette	1
Terence	22
Terry Southern	1
Theodor Geisel	27
Thomas Kempis	10
Thomas Paine	52
Tobias Smollett	2
Toni Cade Bambara	2
Ursula K. Le Guin	23
Vance Packard	4
Vera Brittain	6
Voltaire	169
W. E. B. Du Bois	3
W. Winwood Reade	4
Walker Percy	8
Washington Irving	42
Whittaker Chambers	2
Will Cuppy	3
William Blackstone	2
William Ellery Channing	20
William Gibson	5
William Kennedy	2
William R. Alger	8
William S. Burroughs	21
Wright Morris	1
Zelda Fitzgerald	5