“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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American essayist, journalist and magazine editor 1953Related quotes
“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”
Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (15 July 1957).
“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
Context: Years later, when "Dilbert" was in thousands of newspapers, people often asked me if I ever imagined being so lucky. I usually said no, because that's the answer people expected. The truth is that I imagined every bit of good fortune that has come my way. But in my imagination I also invented a belt that would allow me to fly and had special permission from Congress to urinate like a bird wherever I wanted. I wake up every morning disappointed that I have to wear pants and walk. Imagination has a way of breeding disappointment.
“One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Fantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)