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William Mountford
(1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 500.
Bret Easton Ellis
(1964) American novelist
On The Rules of Attraction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=571852
Edward Abbey
(1927–1989) American author and essayist
“This combines a couple of things I like best — cars and sport.”
Mitt Romney
(1947) American businessman and politician
at Daytona 500, , quoted in [2012-02-26, Romney Works the Crowd at the Daytona 500, Ashley, Parker, The Caucus, The New York Times, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/romney-works-the-crowd-at-the-daytona-500/, 2012-07-03, ,] and * 2012-02-27
The Daily Show
Comedy Central
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-27-2012/indecision-2012---how-is-it-that-mitt-romney-hasn-t-crushed-this-guy-already-
2012-07-03
2012
“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books.”
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Context: I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end.
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their madeup tales.
And so on.
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done.
If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.
“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh