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• The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers.
  "New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that their work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record....
• This knowledge I pursue is the finest pleasure I have ever known.
  I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath....
• Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man.
  -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey...
• I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, Of Meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have bee
  Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, With morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair....
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....
• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
• In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book i, Dedication, Sect. 22...
• He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known.
  -- Sir Richard Burto...
• Wiggum: [picking up the phone] Who is this? Skinne
  It's me, chief. I'm on the other extension. Big Daddy...