“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.”
Michael Kinsley (1951) American political journalist, commentator television host
As quoted in Commentary: The gaffer speaks, The Times, April 23, 1988.
“Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”
— Terry Pratchett, book Hogfather
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as quoted in his Biography, at the Guide to the Frederick Emmons Terman Papers http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf029000zm, Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
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Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
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