"Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination."

-- Darrell Huff

#Imagination Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Scope Quotes

“Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.”
“I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.”
“I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.”

Source : "Matt Gonzalez would govern from the left" by Rachel Gordon, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2003.
“We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.”

Source : "Symbolic Logic". book by John Venn, 1881.
“Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.”
“When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.”
“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
“(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)”

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