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  "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
  - Albert Einstein
  
  "Everything has been thought of before,
  but the problem is to think of it again"
  - J.W. Goethe
  
  "Imagination is a sort of faint perception"
  - Aristotle
  
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  - Agatha Christie
  
  "It is the function of creative men to perceive the
  relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of
  expression, that may seem utterly different,
  and to be able to combine them into some
  new forms - the power to connect the seemingly unconnected"
  - William Plomer
  
  
  "Words are the only things that last forever"
  - William Hazlitt
  
  "The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than
  the monuments of POWER, or of the hands.
  For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years
  or more; without the loss of a syllable or letter;
  during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities
  have been decayed and demolished ?"
  - Francis Bacon
  
  
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  Life is not impossible but difficult for a literary person as the web
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  Searching for a book and you end up with thousands of shop keepers, searching
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  + Posting a message on the web based Literary Marketplace
  
  Are you an author looking for publisher or a publisher or literary
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  or what is going to be the future of BOOK and book industry.
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