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- Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- 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
- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
- Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
- You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
- L. M. Boyd
- Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePatner
- The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
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