“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
“You’re working something, and I should have you arrested for impersonating a con man.”
Source: Windswept (2015), Chapter 16 (p. 195)
Bui Arland
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
“So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.”
Source: The Golden Lily
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.
Blasphemy is what a withered last year's leaf says to a this year's bud.
Blasphemy is the bulwark of religious prejudice.
Blasphemy is the breastplate of the heartless.
And let me say now, that the crime of blasphemy, as set out in this statute, is impossible. No man can blaspheme a book. No man can commit blasphemy by telling his honest thought. No man can blaspheme a God, or a Holy Ghost, or a Son of God. The Infinite cannot be blasphemed.
“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”
“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”
Source: From Here to Eternity
