“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Source: Crazy Sexy Diet (2011), Ch. 4
“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Franz Kafka book On Parables
"On Parables" (1922), translation by Willa and Edwin Muir
The Complete Stories (1971)
Context: A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
Another said: I bet that is also a parable.
The first said: You have won.
The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.
The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.
“If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.”
Rabih Alameddine (1959) Lebanese-American painter and writer.
Source: On the dilemma faced by his protagonist in The Angel of History in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/09/rabih-alameddine-the-angel-of-history in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Georgina and Richard
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
“You’re a natural.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 7 (p. 275)
“I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Ich habe auch manchen wissenschaftlichen Plan überlegt, während ich Dich im Kinderwagen spazieren schob!
Letter to his son Hans Albert Einstein (June 1918)
1910s