"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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“In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.”
“A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.”
“However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.”
“As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.”
“I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.”

Source : "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.
“When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.”
“My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.”
“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”

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