Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. Vladimir Nabokov
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. John le Carre
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. William Vickrey
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. Abraham Kuyper
