Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
The Hermit (1973)
Context: I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it was abnormal for people not to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me.
“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”
Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 14
Context: One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
"Irish Essays. Ecce, Convertimur ad Gentes" (1882)
How Leigh Snowden Broke into Movies http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1956/06/03/page/328/article/how-leigh-snowden-broke-into-movies#text (June 3, 1956)
Quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute"
