Anthony Boucher quotes

“Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.”
-- Anthony Boucher

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“Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.”
-- Anthony Boucher

Source : Rocket to the Morgue Interlude (1942) See Arthur Conan Doyle 10

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“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.”
-- Anthony Boucher

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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.”

“First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.”

“It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety... If I didn't have acceptance at that time in my life I would not be standing here today.”

Source : "Finishing speech a great relief to Eck / Closer brings tears during emotional gathering" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2004.

“Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.”

Source : "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

“The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.”

Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at Renew America rally in Alabama, www.keyesarchives.com. April 29, 2000.

“The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.”

“Chess will always be the master of us all.”

“It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.”

“I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...”