"In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact."

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Source : "Don't Ask". Book by Donald E. Westlake, April 1993.

Donald E. Westlake

#Order Quotes #Facts Quotes

“In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.”
“I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from,”
“When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.”
“we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.”
“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.”
“Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.”
“It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.”
“Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.”

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