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> [We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/we-are-like-icebergs-in-the-ocean-one-eighth-part-consciousness-and/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

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## Other authors on Iceberg

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## More by William Gerhardie

> [“Our life was an inept play with some disproportionately good acting in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/our-life-was-an-inept-play-with-some-disproportionately-good-acting/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

> [“But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one’s death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It’s commercially unsound.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/but-to-dwell-prematurely-on-the-sadness-of-one-s-death-to-others/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

> [“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/if-a-book-is-worth-reading-at-all-it-is-worth-reading-more-than-once/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

> [We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/we-are-like-icebergs-in-the-ocean-one-eighth-part-consciousness-and/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

> [“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/no-fiction-is-good-fiction-unless-it-is-true-to-life-and-yet-no-life/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

> [There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gerhardie/there-are-as-many-fools-at-a-university-as-anywhere-but-their-folly-i/)

[William Gerhardie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gerhardie/)

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