Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
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David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
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“At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me.”
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
Review of T. Kingfisher's Nine Goblins http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/basically-i-have-no-sense-of-humour, 2013 <br class="br">2010s <br class="br">Context: At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me. This is a shame because so much fantasy and SF depends on genocide as positive plot element. This trifling oddity of taste must have robbed me of hours of morally equivocal entertainment.
“We all tend to be greedy end-gainers, paying no attention to our means whereby.”
F. Matthias Alexander (1869–1955) Australian actor
Quoted in The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley (1942), p. 88
“proper attention and management, less irritable, less”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
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