Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)
Andrew Cummins (@Vodkaninja), Twitter, December 4 2013. Screen capture https://homoeconomicusnet.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/did-christopher-hitchens-say-that-on-islamophobia-or-someone-on-twitter/. <br class="br">Misattributed
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
Bullshit Fan Mail http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ihatemail0. <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe
“Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104
Context: Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should be abandoned. Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.
“Fatigue makes cowards of all of us.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
War as I knew it (1947), as cited in Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, By Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner, p. 258 https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA258(via books.google.com).
“The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) English writer
"A Note on George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=NA0HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+NonConformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA250#v=onepage The Yellow Book (October 1894) <br class="br"> "King George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=OvlGAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Nonconformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale