“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
The Door http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_door.html (1939)
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
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