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Quotes of Authors
"No one wants advice -- only corroboration."
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson
"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."
Marie Corelli (Queen Victoria's favorite novelist )
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton, American writer
"Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids...
on my desk in little jars!"
Stephen King
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
Norman Douglas
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British novelist
"You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you."
Vicki Baum Austrian-USA novelist
"To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles."
Anon.
"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad, mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."
Jean "Iris" Murdoch, Irish-born writer
"If you were a member of Jesse James's band and people asked you what you were, you wouldn't say 'Well, I'm a desperado.' You'd say something like, 'I work in banks,' or 'I've done some railroad work.' It took me a long time just to say 'I'm a writer.' It's really embarrassing."
Roy Blount, Jr. (b. 1942) U.S. humorist, sportswriter, poet
"The young specialist in English Lit... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.
...My answer to him was, ...when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong
"Don't try to teach a pig to sing, it can't be done and it only ticks off the pig."
Robert Heinlein science fiction author
"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein science fiction author
"Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish
misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice."
Patricia McKillip (1948-) Science Fiction Writer
"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
Douglas Adams
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: `It seemed a good idea at the time.'"
Dame Rebecca West, Irish-born author and journalist (1892-1983).
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
Sound familiar? Just like people today? It's from J. D. Salinger's book "Catcher in the Rye," which written in 1950. The words are spoken by narrator Holden Caulfield.
"A statistician is one who collects data and draws confusions."
Hyman Berston
Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.
Gershon Legman (b. 1917) American writer
"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
Thomas Dewar
He uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost, for support, not for illumination.
G. K. Chesterton
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Noel Adams, British author, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago."
Robert A. Heinlein
"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often."
Oliver Herford
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
Alfred A. Montapert
"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."
Andre Malraux, French novelist, archaeologist, art theorist, political activist, and public official
"The profession of book-writing makes horseracing seem like a solid, stable business."
John Steinbeck
"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."
James Beard, American chef and author
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.
Elaine St. James
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
Minna Antrim, American writer (1856-1950)
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked."
Katherine Anne Porter American author (1894-1980)
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
Kurt Vonnegut
"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."
Lydia Maria Child American author (1802-1880)
"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure when free."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist and short-story writer
"Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident."
James P. Hogan, writer
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
Jacques Barzun French-born American author
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