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==Quotations==
==Quotations==
"I find all novels lacking in probability."
"Probability is the bane of the age.  Every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows what is probable.  The fact is most people have not the smallest idea what is going on round them.  Their conclusions about life are based on utterly irrelevant--and usually inaccurate--premises."
Spoken by a music critic and a musician, respectively, from page 212 of Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell and is the fifth novel in his twelve volume series, Dance to the Music of Time.
Submitted by Paul Alper
==Forsooths==
==Forsooths==
==Item 1==
==Item 1==
==Item 2==
==Item 2==

Revision as of 14:21, 24 March 2009

Quotations

"I find all novels lacking in probability."

"Probability is the bane of the age. Every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows what is probable. The fact is most people have not the smallest idea what is going on round them. Their conclusions about life are based on utterly irrelevant--and usually inaccurate--premises."

Spoken by a music critic and a musician, respectively, from page 212 of Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell and is the fifth novel in his twelve volume series, Dance to the Music of Time.

Submitted by Paul Alper

Forsooths

Item 1

Item 2