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by Forget Magazine

A conscientious study of literary genres has led me to believe in the greater value of insult and mockery.
—Jorge Luis Borges. "The Art of Verbal Abuse"

It is not good for our efforts at self-realization to know the opinions other people have of us. It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be ourselves if we are known.
—Eric Hoffer, "What Others Think"

It is routine for writers to describe their vocation as solitary, lonely, a one-worker shop. It's also routine for writers to grouch about the Vanishing Editor, the empty place left on the earth when Maxwell Perkins—always Perkins—went to heaven.
—Geoffrey Wolf, The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara

The air is filled with a thousand screams, but habit is a great deadener.
—Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Two points of dislike: Perkins asks Fitzgerald to omit a short story in which Shakespeare commits a rape, ' a crime . . . associated with Negroes'; and shortly afterwards he describes the guests at a party he didn't enjoy as 'a rather Semitic-looking crowd.'
—The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

But we neither like nor trust the forces of intellect—not unless they can be securely fixed to a commercial profit or an applied technology.
—Lewis H.Lapham, Gag Rule

...it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind—they are interesting and they stimulate.
—Eric Hoffer, "Thinking As Caricature"

Forget is going back to work now. Honestly.