1. "AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR"
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Quote by Henry David Thoreau
2. "Every artist was first an amateur."
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;"
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Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
4. "Never tell the truth about an amateur show."
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Quote by Leslie McFarlane
5. "amateur gynecology."
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Gregory Benford, Artifact
6. "A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur."
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Quote by Harlan Ellison
7. "We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick."
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Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
8. "(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity."
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Beryl Markham, West with the Night
9. "(an early dust-flap biography called her a practicing amateur witch,"
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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
10. "An amateur is anyone who hasn’t learned how not to do it,’ I said."
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Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow