“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
Source: The Kite Runner
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“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
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Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1956 - 1967
Variant: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.
From 'Om man så må sige – 350 Dronning Margrethe-citater', quoted in English here http://trondni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-books-wit-and-wisdom-of-margrethe-ii.html.
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“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”
As quoted in Funny Ladies (2001), by B. Adler, p. 272
“I worry I don’t see things the way everyone else does.”
On her anxieties as a writer (as quoted in “I Have Lost All Interest in Having a Self” https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/coventry-rachel-cusk-review.html) (2019 Sep 19)
Source: Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote, 01 March 2021