“Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
First lines.
The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
“Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.”
Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).
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“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.”
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And that's everybody, everybody's hurting”
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1940s
“The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Morgase Trakand
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“The many fail: the one succeeds.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Day-Dream
The Arrival, st. 2
The Day-Dream (1842)
Context: The bodies and the bones of those
That strove in other days to pass,
Are wither'd in the thorny close,
Or scatter'd blanching on the grass.
He gazes on the silent dead:
"They perish'd in their daring deeds."
This proverb flashes thro' his head,
"The many fail: the one succeeds."