“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
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Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
Quoted by Hillary Atkin in " Vicky Jenson: Filmmaker http://variety.com/2001/biz/news/vicky-jenson-1117855807/", Variety (November 14, 2001).
“An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else!”
Une société intelligente en aurait fait des gens comme tout le monde!
Trial statement
A Character Star Gets Her Perks Playing Coffee's Mrs. Olson (April 30, 1979)
“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us.”
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”
No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger (unpublished manuscript written 1902–1908)