It's A Lie, But Heaven Will Forgive

The Lord Said 'let There Be Wheat' And Saskatchewan Was Born

The Writing Of Solid, Instructive Stuff Fortified By Facts And Figures Is Easy Enough. There Is No Trouble In Writing A Scientific Treatise On The Folk-lore Of Central China, Or A Statistical Enquiry Into The Declining Population Of Prince Edward Island. But To Write Something Out Of One's Own Mind, Worth Reading For Its Own Sake, Is An Arduous Contrivance Only To Be Achieved In Fortunate Moments, Few And Far In Between. Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

You Cannot Depict Love Inside A Frame Of Fact. It Needs A Mist To Dissolve In.

Newspapermen Learn To Call A Murderer "an Alleged Murderer" And The King Of England "the Alleged King Of England" In Order To Avoid Libel Suits.

Charles Dickens' Creation Of Mr. Pickwick Did More For The Elevation Of The Human Race - I Say It In All Seriousness - Than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid The Encircling Gloom. Newman Only Cried Out For Light In The Gloom Of A Sad World. Dickens Gave It.