"In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted."

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Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.72, Crimeline

Rex Stout

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“If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.”
“Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.”
“This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.”
“I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.”
“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”

Source : Will Self's rules for writers, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.”
“I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.”

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