"Thoughts During An Air Raid"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: Of course, the entire effort is to put myself
Outside the ordinary range
Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed
In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One
Backlash (1992)
Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten (2001), Bounded Rationality. The Adaptive Toolbox, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“You don't put statistics on trial, you put individuals on trial.”
From Extended Brains on Trial - Published on Sep 19, 2013
“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter Three, The Romantic Outsider
“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.”
This slanderous remark was attributed to Churchill, possibly by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to depict him as a liar.
In German: »Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe«
Misattributed
In response to criticism that she was too beautiful to play a lonely waitress in Frankie and Johnny, quoted in Pfeiffer: Beyond the Age of Innocence by Thompson, p. 223
Context: The description of the character is that Frankie is an attractive woman if she'd just put a little effort into how she looks. So that's basically the way I played her. I consider myself an attractive woman, and I can be not-so-great-looking if I don't put effort into how I look. But more importantly, the core of the character was someone who had given up on love, and that could be any age, any size, any form of beauty. That could be anybody.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 9.
