"To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them."

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

— Mark Twain