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“The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.”
― Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson

“The vegetable kingdom still remains one of the few which Napoleon has not yet conquered.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Uncle Bernac

“Once every year for four days the tens of thousands of Athenian citizens sat in the open air on the stone seats at the side of the Acropolis and from sunrise to sunset watched the plays of the competing dramatists. All that we have to correspond is a Test match. The manner in which the drama arrived will tell us something valuable about Test matches and (for the moment let us whisper it) the way Test matches arrived may start a trail into that vexed question: the origin of Greek drama. There are so many that another wouldn't hurt.”
― C. L. R. James

“A ridiculous old age is perhaps the saddest and ultimate surprise human nature may have in store.”
― Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas