Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author
As quoted in "Heller's legacy will be 'Catch-22' ideas" at CNN (13 December 1999) http://archives.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/13/heller/index.html
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.”
The quote "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what …" is famous quote by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist.
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Twilight of the Idols (1888)
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“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
As quoted in Funny Ladies (2001), by B. Adler, p. 272
“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it.”
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician
Preface (1 February 1834)
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
Context: I don't know of any thing in my book to be criticised on by honourable men. Is it on my spelling? — that's not my trade. Is it on my grammar? — I hadn't time to learn it, and make no pretensions to it. Is it on the order and arrangement of my book? — I never wrote one before, and never read very many; and, of course, know mighty little about that. Will it be on the authorship of the book? — this I claim, and I hang on to it, like a wax plaster. The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it. I would not be such a fool, or knave either, as to deny that I have had it hastily run over by a friend or so, and that some little alterations have been made in the spelling and grammar; and I am not so sure that it is not the worse of even that, for I despise this way of spelling contrary to nature. And as for grammar, it's pretty much a thing of nothing at last, after all the fuss that's made about it. In some places, I wouldn't suffer either the spelling, or grammar, or any thing else to be touch'd; and therefore it will be found in my own way.
But if any body complains that I have had it looked over, I can only say to him, her, or them — as the case may he — that while critics were learning grammar, and learning to spell, I, and "Doctor Jackson, L. L. D." were fighting in the wars; and if our hooks, and messages, and proclamations, and cabinet writings, and so forth, and so on, should need a little looking over, and a little correcting of the spelling and the grammar to make them fit for use, its just nobody's business. Big men have more important matters to attend to than crossing their ts—, and dotting their is—, and such like small things.
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Tyra Banks (1973) American model, author and television personality
"Cover Story: Tyra Banks Speaks Out About Her Weight" http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20009611,00.html (January 24, 2007) People Magazine, Time Inc.