It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Quoting The Author Of NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF

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Fiction is made by a process
which combines total freedom
and utter control,
 
which balances precise observation
with the free play of the imagination,
 
which uses the lie to tell the truth
and truth to tell lies.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 13, 2021 at 9:55 AM

    Did you actually read this book or are you
    just quoting it?

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    1. Paul OliverioOctober 13, 2021 at 10:01 AM

      I am five pages from the end
      of a two hundred forty-four page book
      that has taken me seven days to read
      but if I were to highlight
      ALL that is quotable,
      it would have taken ten days.

      Here is one last quote from STRAVINSKY
      (truncated by me):
      One lives by memory and not by truth

      Delete
    2. AnonymousOctober 13, 2021 at 10:03 AM

      Reminds me of a should be famous quote:
      Memory is not a precision instrument.

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    3. Paul OliverioOctober 13, 2021 at 10:06 AM

      If you want my quote to become famous,
      please repeat it to as many people
      as you can but please have them spell
      OLIVERIO correctly

      Delete

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