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Isn’t egomania always the precondition of all creative work?  I have found little to dispel that notion.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Memoirs, ch. 9 (1975)

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher, poet, critic
Journal (26 Dec 1852) [tr. Mrs. H. Ward (1885)]

Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
Human, All Too Human, 531 (1878) [tr. M. Faber (1984)]

She’s a Democrat. She must prove she loves America. As opposed to Republicans, who everyone knows love America — they just hate half the people living in it.

Jon Stewart (b. 1962) American satirist, comedian, and television host. [b. Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz]
“Michelle Obama’s Patriotism,” The Daily Show (26 Aug 2008)
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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-American writer
“The Planet that Wasn’t,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1975)
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