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“Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it’s too late.”
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“INTERVIEWER
Have you ever been envious of another writer?
WODEHOUSE
No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too grateful to get some stuff I can read.”
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Have you ever been envious of another writer?
WODEHOUSE
No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too grateful to get some stuff I can read.”
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“Explaining basic probability to a group of people can be best qualified as futile.”
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“What aristocratic writers are given by nature for nothing, commoners acquire at the cost of their youth”
― A Life in Letters
― A Life in Letters
“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned that another man had lost $20,000 at Trop World a few hours earlier and had to be dragged out of the casino kicking and screaming. I asked if this happened a lot. "Man," he said, "there's a whole world of losers out there, and sooner or later they all end up here. Only they don't think they're losers. When they find out, it's like the surprise of their life.”
― The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
― The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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