"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains."

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Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black

Charles Portis

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“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”
“The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.”
“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”
“The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.”
“Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.”

Source : Source: www.threemonkeysonline.com
“We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.”
“Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”

Source : "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
“When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.”

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