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“A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.”

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Author:Horace

“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”

“My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.”

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Author:Sue Grafton

“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

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“I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham