I know, for already we of Philistia have been pestered by three of these makers of literature. Yes, there was Edgar, whom I starved and hunted until I was tired of it: then I chased him up a back alley one night, and knocked out those annoying brains of his. And there was Walt, whom I chivvied and battered from place to place, and made a paralytic of him: and him, too, I labelled offensive and lewd and lascivious and indecent. Then later there was Mark, whom I frightened into disguising himself in a clown's suit, so that nobody might suspect him to be a maker of literature: indeed, I frightened him so that he hid away the greater part of what he had made until after he was dead, and I could not get at him. That was a disgusting trick to play on me, I consider. Still, these are the only three detected makers of literature that have ever infested Philistia, thanks be to goodness and my vigilance, but for both of which we might have been no more free from makers of literature than are the other countries.…
The Judging of Jurgen (1920)
“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
The Magician's Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)
Author Unknown, Pittsburgh 6, Chi Cubs 4 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270510116, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007
2007
“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”
Source: My Story
Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, 16
Unclassified
“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
"John Rivers" in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Source: The Genius And The Goddess
“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”
Birgitte Trahelion
(15 October 1994)
