Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
1982 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1982.html <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness)
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
1982 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1982.html <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
“We deny that poetry is fiction; its merit and its power lie alike in its truth:”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Monthly Magazine
“Truths begin by a conflict with the police — and end by calling them in.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest
Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 13 : Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
“A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.”
Rashi (1040–1105) French rabbi and commentator
Deuteronomy 13,27
Ethics
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
C. West Churchman (1979, p. 21) as cited in: Interfaces (1982) Vol 12, p. 12
1980s and later
“Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”
"Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote" (January 1955)
Tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Dreamtigers (1960)
Variant: In the beginning of literature there is myth, as there is also in the end of it.
“Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning.”
Sally Gardner book The Red Necklace
Source: The Red Necklace
“It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning…”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“An Unread Book”, p. 25
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)