"Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself."

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Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

Scott McClanahan

“We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.”
“Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?”
“Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.”
“I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.”
“I like the responsive, quick feeling I get out of the Proton, and I am excited to have this board as my model.”
“If I even tell anything false, within one minute I have to come clean. And I think most people, even if they're not that direct, it comes out in indirect ways. If somebody cheats on you, they end up telling you they've been spending all this time hanging out with that person. Why? Because nobody can bear a lie. A lie won't stay silent. It makes noise.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.”

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