“He never once took the name of the Lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor’s ass. In fact, he loved his neighbor and never even bore false witness against him. Major Major’s elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.” ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” ~~ William Faulkner
“Still youthful at twenty-five, he was hoping that fate would “give him a break.” It did.” ~~ Anthony Pelcher in Vampires of Venus

‘“Manhood versus Machinery” occurred to him as a suitable headline. Journalism curdles all one’s mind to phrases.’ H.G. Wells in The Land of Ironclads
“Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach” ~~ Mauricio Kagel