We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the
originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has
forgotten its source.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"
originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has
forgotten its source.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"
Related:
- Cheese -- milk's leap toward immortality.
-- Clifton Fadiman,
"Any Number Can... - When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.
You see more in you than there was before. -- Clifton... - One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends
can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention... - Passions are fashions.
--
Clifton... - To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by
our own arithmetic.
The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence... - The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton... - In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession
or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches
in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the
preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia,
we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees...
From the same category:
- It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be
privileged to utter sedition,
to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the... - SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.
He fell by his own hand
Beneath the great oak tree.
He'd traveled in a foreign land. He... - hard, adj:
The quality of your own data;
also how it is to believe those of other people... - We cannot allow any race as greedy and corruptible as yours to have
free run of the galaxy.
Norman the android, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3... - Captain,
life is _not_ a dream...
