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Quote by Davy Jones

“I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.”

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Davy Jones, born on December 30, 1945, was an American actor. He gained fame as the lead singer and drummer of the 1960s-1970s music group The Monkees. Jones had a diverse career in music and film, with a range of roles and styles. more

“When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!”

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Book:Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Source: Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome

“There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.”

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Author:Steven Saylor

“Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.”

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Author:Steven Saylor

“We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.”

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Author:Steven Saylor

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