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Famous quotes containing the words tissue and/or time:

“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
—Oliver Edwards (1711–1791)