Thomas M. Disch: Quotes about people

Thomas M. Disch was Novelist, short story writer, poet. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Religious faith often finds itself at odds with story-telling. Puritans ban acting companies. Islam is uneasy about all forms of representation. And why? Because the experience of walking out of the theater after a performance is a paradigm of disillusionment, and religious people are officially supposed to believe, first and foremost, in their own literal faith, from which there are no exits. They've taken the big leap, and live, ever after, in free fall.”

Thomas M. Disch

Introduction to "The Santa Claus Compromise".
The Man Who Had No Idea (and other stories) (1982)

People , Faith

“There was nothing like shared meals, so the experts at IBM claimed, for overcoming one's basic disbelief in the existence of other people.”

Thomas M. Disch

"Concepts".
The Man Who Had No Idea (and other stories) (1982)

People

“The way we work, the way we talk, the way we watch television or walk down the street, even the way we fuck, or maybe that especially—each of those is part of the problem of identity. We can’t do any of those things authentically until we find out who we really are and be that person, inside and out, instead of the person other people want us to be. Usually those other people, if they want us to be something we aren’t, are using us as a laboratory for working out their own identity problems.”

Thomas M. Disch

Emancipation: A Romance of the Times to Come (1971)

Personality , People , Problem , Way