"The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks."

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Source : Humphrey Carpenter (2003). “Mr Majeika and the School Trip”, p.1, Penguin UK

Humphrey Carpenter

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“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”
“Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.”
“The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,”

Source : "The philosophy" by Ingvar Kamprad, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2004.
“If I could, I'd wear my sneakers everywhere, even for dinners or events.”

Source : Source: sea.askmen.com
“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
“When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.”
“For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.”
“Why isnâ€™t it fun to watch a videotape of last nightâ€™s football game even when we donâ€™t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!”

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