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Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#best #best-seller #even #had #i

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#charts #domination #i #none #pop

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio. ↗

— Jonathan Potter

#business #even #i #i think #increases

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gang #general #instinct #loathing #sect

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#apparently #around #beyond #corner #eye

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#going #good #i #memory #thankful

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#am #anything #because #cut #dawned

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable