Adultery Quote by A. J. Liebling

I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know…

— James Vance

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there…

— Eric Schmidt

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events;…

— Matthew Simpson

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who…

— Anonymous

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change…

— Judith Curry

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and…

— David Tennant

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and…

— Laurence Housman

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge…

— Vic Reeves

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything…

— Richard K. Morgan

I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from…

— Tennessee Williams

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities.…

— Laurie Graham

The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about…

— Dan Chaon