Few writers are as quotable as Mark Twain. Though I required 135,000 words to complete my belief book, he summarised the contents in a single sentence. “Faith”, he wrote, “is believing what you know ain’t so”.
Here's another favourite quote, which needs to be read more than once to get the full devastating effect. “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
And now I’ve found a new quote (well, new to me) which reflects how I feel about the passing of the years: “I have no objection to retirement… as long as it doesn’t interrupt my work”…
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