“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”
Source: The Age of Innocence
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Sathyam, Sivam, Sundaram - Part 3. by N. Kasturi. Page 305 US ed. Next to the last chapter.
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
Source: Queer Notions, A Fabulous Collection of Gay and Lesbian Wit and Wisdom, 1996, p. 18.
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Variant: It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Source: Asfixia
“Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?”
Source: Spellbinder
“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Source: As quoted in Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections (1982), Vol. 2, edited by E. H. Mikhail, p. 186
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 16 “Warrior” (p. 239)
Source: Howl and Other Poems