
“To be understood is to prostitute yourself.”
Ibid., p. 136
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
What I've Learned (July 2002)
“To be understood is to prostitute yourself.”
Ibid., p. 136
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
"Literary Portraits. VIII - Mr. Joseph Conrad," in The Tribune (1907-09-14)
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“As far as I'm concerned, it's the ony name I've ever had.”
On her lifelong use of the name "Happy", in "The Happy Rhodes Interview" in Homeground #48 (Summer 1993) http://web.archive.org/web/20091023165015/http://geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/homeground.html
Context: The first time my brothers saw me, when I was a day or two old and still in the hospital, my brother Mark could not pronounce the name "Kimberley," and I was an especially happy baby, so he decided it would be easier to call me "Happy." From that moment on, my family members never used the name Kimberley. I was forced, however, to use my given name while attending school. As soon as I turned sixteen, my name was legally changed to Happy Tyler Rhodes. As far as I'm concerned, it's the ony name I've ever had. When people ask me if it's my real name, I always say "yes."
Simon Kuznets (1962, p. 32), as cited in: David W. Galenson, "Understanding the Creativity of Scientists and Entrepreneurs." (2012).
“As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seeling (1956), p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=VCbPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22silent+vice%22#search_anchor. Einstein is said to have made this remark "when someone in his company grew angry about a mutual acquaintance's moral decline".
Attributed in posthumous publications
“As far as I'm concerned, they can strike for a day, a month, until death.”
In reference to convicted Palestinian prisoners announcing a hunger strike. Hanegbi: Prisoners on hunger strike 'can starve to death' http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=464469 Haaretz, 14 August 2004
“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
As quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1942) by Edmund Fuller
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
The New Statesman (1933-02-25)
“The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.”
Source: Perfect Scoundrels