“I live in a small fictional town in Connecticut.”
Harvey Fierstein (1954) actor from the United States
This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)
“I suppose everybody has these softheaded spells, when they think it would be fun to live in a small town. They pass quickly, of course.”
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
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Claude Lévi-Strauss book Tristes Tropiques
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 11 : São Paulo, p. 95
“Everybody's having fun,
except me I'm the lonely one
I live in shame.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Goodbye to Romance, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley.
Song lyrics, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942) American sociologist, author, golf course architect
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 68
Context: In the time of Jesus almost everybody worked in small shops or on the land and then sold or bartered their own products in the towns. There were no vast industrial centers, no great factories, no steam power or electricity. Everyone knew his neighbor by name. There was no highly developed division of labor, nor were there great extremes of wealth and poverty. Such economic conditions are ideal—or at least as nearly ideal as they can ever be—for the spread of Christian communism. And so they are still in many parts of Russia.
Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer
was an all-black community. And people still lived very segregated lives, I think, because that was all they had always known. And there was still this kind of danger to integrating. So people kind of stayed in the places - the safe places that they had always known. <br class="br">On still experiencing the aftereffects of segregation in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” https://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497953254/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers in NPR (2016 Oct 14)
Martha Washington (1731–1802) First Lady of the United States
Letter to her niece Fanny Basset Washington (October 1789), as quoted in Memorials of Washington and of Mary, his Mother, and Martha, his Wife (1887) edited by James Walter, Robert Cary, p. 267
Context: I live a very dull life here and know nothing that passes in the town — I never go to any public place; indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. There are certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from; and as I cannot do as I like, I am obstinate, and stay at home a great deal.
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
Cited in: Roger Martin, Karen Christensen (2013) Rotman on Design. p. 213
New millennium, Harvard Business School Press conference, 2002