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- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a book review
- The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Never confuse movement with action.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
- A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
- All movements go too far.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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