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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Source : Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246
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“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
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“But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.”
Source : Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”
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“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.”
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“There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.”
Source : Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins
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“In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats”
Source : Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart
