Bartlett's Familiar Quotes

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later [1978]

I have lifted this speech from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

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I HAVE LIFTED this speech from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. If more people would acknowledge that they got their pearls of wisdom from that book instead of the original, it might clear the air. * * * IF THERE REALLY had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people’s vanity and foolishness.