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“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than…

— Paul Hendrickson

“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

— Marcel Proust

“His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and…

— Mary Shelley

“Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural…

— Mark Twain

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

— Plato

“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an…

— Agatha Christie