ariel comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:06PM

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Comment author: ariel 27 October 2009 08:43:22PM 4 points [-]

beceause...

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” ~Oscar Wilde

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 28 October 2009 12:25:04AM 3 points [-]

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” ~Oscar Wilde

Wilde: I wish I'd said that
Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will!

Comment author: RobinZ 28 October 2009 01:09:51AM *  3 points [-]

(For the record, Wikiquote suggests W. Somerset Maugham, in the 1926 short story The Creative Impulse - the exact quote listed being "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit".)