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“I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.” quote by Charles Fort — Download Open image

“I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.”

Charles Fort

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer…

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[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there…

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The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If…

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Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a…

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“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only…

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The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

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“Is life worth living? Like everybody else, I have many times asked that question, usually deciding negatively, because I am most likely to ask myself whether life is worth living, at times when I am convinced it isn't. One day, in one of my frequent, and probably incurable, scientific moments, it occurred to me to find out. For a month,…

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All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.

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“I sent letters of enquiry to all persons whose names were given, and received not one reply. There are several ways of explaining. One is that it is probable that persons who have experiences such as those told of in this book, receive so many "crank letters" that they answer none. Dear me — once upon a time, I enjoyed…

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“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out”

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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

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