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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
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“Still youthful at twenty-five, he was hoping that fate would “give him a break.” It did.” ~~ Anthony Pelcher in Vampires of Venus
I must be showing my age. I was reading this story from ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE published April, 1930. This line just cracked me up.
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ~~ Nelson Mandela
Obama’s tweeted this quote after Charlottesville, slightly different than Trump’s support by omission of white nationalism.
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‘“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
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“Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach” ~~ Mauricio Kagel
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“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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He tried again. “One seems to start in life,” he said, “expecting something. And it doesn’t happen. And it doesn’t matter. One starts with ideas that things are good and things are bad—and it hasn’t much relation to what is good and what is bad. I’ve always been the skeptaceous sort, and it’s always seemed rot to me to pretend we know good from evil. It’s just what I’ve never done. No Adam’s apple stuck in my throat, ma’am. I don’t own to it.” ~~ The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells
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“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.” ~~ From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ~~ Abraham Lincoln
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~~ George Bernard Shaw
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