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Writing turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.
Philip Roth, American Pastoral (via bethanyleach)
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[A] university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life or career, it is a place for education, something quite different. A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.
Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles (via monkeyonawire)
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As a joke, Arthur Conan Doyle once sent five letters to five friends that read, “We are discovered, flee immediately”, to see what they would do. One of them disappeared and Conan Doyle never saw him again.
QI (E Series - Espionage)
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