“I don't know what citizens of Prague must feel about these endless lines of tourists tramping over their streets.”
John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)
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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
“And they don't know what I feel.”
Letter to Madame Mohl (13 December 1861)
The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913)
Context: People often say to me, You don't know what a wife and mother feels. No, I say, I don't and I'm very glad I don't. And they don't know what I feel. … I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.
“Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.”
As quoted in Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (2009) by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206 http://books.google.bg/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=bg
Interview at a concert (RPLA - whose singer James Maker is a friend of Morrisseys)
About the Notre Dame fire, Odds & Ends
Response to question on his feelings about the atomic bombings, while visiting Japan in 1960.