"I don't have time to read nonfiction."

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W. P. Kinsella

#Nonfiction Quotes

“[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.”
“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”
“I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .”
“Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.”
“if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.”
“I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.”
“It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”

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