Question: Who inspired the author of "Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play"?
Answer(s):
answer: Sherwood Anderson
answer: Thomas Malory
answer: William Faulkner
answer: Robert Burns

SPARQL query:
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SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ?c)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
?c ns:people.person.quotations ns:m.048d25q . 
?c ns:influence.influence_node.influenced_by ?x .
}