Tag Archives: Quotes
W IP
“We do have a sense of humor, believe it or not.” So says Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman on the recent letter to The Onion indicating that they were illegally making use of the presidential seal. (Via the New York Times; see Bugmenot for a password.)
Writing into reality
“If I had not committed this story to writing by frequent reference to it in many of my books, I should think I had dreamed it.” Girolamo Cardano, The Book of My Life (De Vita Propria Liber)(p. 95). Cardano was a 16th century gambler and astrologer, and relates a series of “near-misses,” including falling masonry […]
How to break in?
Finally, they say, “It’s hard to make a name for yourself in Paris.” Lie! Nothing is easier today. Published every morning, printed every week are a hundred enemy journals and twenty rival reviews that do nothing but talk, and which esteem themselves only too happy when you want to furnish them with some amusing pages […]
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