Humphrey Carpenter quotes
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“The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.”
-- Humphrey CarpenterSource : Humphrey Carpenter (2003). “Mr Majeika and the School Trip”, p.1, Penguin UK
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“Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.”
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“You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.”
-- Humphrey CarpenterSource : Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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“Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.”
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“To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.”
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“Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.”
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“Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.”
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