1969 Quote by James Blish

“I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise…

— Jonathan Wutawunashe

“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“If you cannot believe, you cannot create.”

— Morgan Rice

“Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then…

— Charles Martin

“And I don’t believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here….…

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the…

— John Boyne

“It is incomprehensible to me now that I could ever have thought that anyone would love this ambulant bag of blood and bones.”

— Gail Honeyman

“A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone,…

— Brock Clarke

“the trillions of make-believe”

— Yuval Noah Harari