About Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked...
More quotations from Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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