
“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”
The Door http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_door.html (1939)
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 201
Context: What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.
“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”
The Door http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_door.html (1939)
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“If you want we could go somewhere else.”
"Marrow"
Actor (2009)
“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.”
"Fro-Joy" (January 1940)
One Man's Meat (1942)