After-Orts #72
What Is History But a Fable Agreed Upon?
-- widely attributed to Napoleon, most often in the form "History is a set of lies agreed upon", but the origins of the phrase are murky…
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/05/fable/
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett, in a 1983 short story, Worstward Ho
Life is all about brevity and how easily the world can get along without us: nobody fills our shoes, they’re simply thrown into the old shoe bin and all the books we wrote are made into roadbed, you drive the interstate, you’re driving on literature, I read that somewhere.
— Garrison Keillor, Boom Town, chapter 1
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
-- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)