“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
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Henry James
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– December 22, 2020
Euripides
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
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– December 20, 2020
Sir William Preece
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
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– December 19, 2020
Jeffery F. Chamberlain
“In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.”
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– December 16, 2020
Umberto Eco
“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
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– December 14, 2020
H. L. Mencken
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
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– December 10, 2020
Nicholas Butler
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
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– December 9, 2020
Frank Zappa
“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”
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– December 8, 2020
Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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– December 7, 2020
Oscar Wilde
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
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– December 6, 2020
