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I may have been wrong about this.

- Umberto Eco, Confessions of a Young Novelist

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After I publish a text on semiotics, I devote my time either to recognizing what was wrong or to demonstrating that those who did not understand it in the way I meant were misreading it. 

- Umberto Eco

NB, Lena Dunham (et al.)

The last 28-year-old who could have written a memoir worth reading was Alexander the Great.

- PJ O'Rourke, 'They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham'

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I am keen to know why Macfarlane-Deakin took 'two hipflasks (one of whisky, one of arak)' - and where they got their 'arak' from, in Dorset.

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Mercifully witty.

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It took no great insight to guess that Lida did not like writers and that she had attached herself to me because I did not look like one. I shook my head and mumbled a few words to the effect that I did something in the cinema, regretting instantly that I hadn't invented a calling even more distant from literature, such as table-tennis or Egyptology.

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Errata - or; How it is Done

Page 1. Line 16. after Parts, strike out the comma...

- Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon, in the East-Indies: Together With an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now living there, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape

[Note to editors: This page of minor corrections is at the front of the first edition.]

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