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“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.”
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“That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”
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“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
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“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― The Peter Principle
― The Peter Principle

“When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.”
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
― I. Asimov: A Memoir

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