"I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude."

-- Franny Billingsley

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“I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”

Source : Attributed to Diane Sawyer in R.L. Messner, S.J. Lewis "Increasing patient satisfaction" (p. 185), 1996.
“I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.”
“Confess and be hanged.”
“Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.”
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
“Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.”
“If I look back I am lost.”
“Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.”

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