“It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.”
Source: Humboldt's Gift
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Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trial
To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 245
“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“Nobody bothers crazy people. […] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.”
Gene Wolfe book Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
"The Adopted Father", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
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Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
On The Crucible, in a 1987 interview; as quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (11 February 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/theater/newsandfeatures/11cnd-miller.html?ei=5070&en=3842d0df3195ba4c&ex=1148356800&adxnnlx=1148209567-ZnjnGzbndB3P1XvCU5BNDg&pagewanted=all&position= <br class="br">Context: I was very moved by that play once again when the Royal Shakespeare Company did a production that toured the cathedrals of England. Then they took it to Poland and performed it in the cathedrals there, too. The actors said it changed their lives. Officials wept; they were speechless after the play, and everyone knew why. It was because they had to enforce the kind of repression the play was attacking. That made me prouder than anything I ever did in my life. The mission of the theater, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
“I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”
Lisa Lutz (1970) US author
Source: The Spellman Files
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and freq…
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
“Like all reasonable people, I hate all Muslims. Except for the ones I've met, who seem fine.”
Stewart Lee (1968) English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician
Series 4 Episode 2: "Islamophobia"
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?
P. 276.
Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)