"To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it."

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Source : Louis Auchincloss (1979). “Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches”, Houghton Mifflin

Louis Auchincloss

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“The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.”

Source : Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press
“Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.”
“Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.”
“Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!”

Source : Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143
“Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.”
“We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal”
“I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of”

Source : Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.
“Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.”

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