Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
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Poets do not go mad but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these.
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There is more simplicity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts in principle.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, 'charm', 'spell', 'enchantment'. Theyexpress the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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