“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”
Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable
The Unnamable (1954)
As quoted in Spin (August 1996), p. 34.
1990s
“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”
Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable
The Unnamable (1954)
“I want to be remembered as a person who, or as an artist who provided comfort for people.”
Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer
Interview with Universal Music Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI68Ue0sPfo (October 2018)
Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer
Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 438
The Boys Of Summer
Liu Wen (model) (1988) Chinese model
Source: "Liu Wen opens up about fame, responsibility and finding meaning in her career" in Vogue https://vogue.sg/liu-wen-cover-vogue-singapore-leslie-zhang/ (1 March 2021)
“Maybe I’ll end up on the fun side of her pants some day.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 6, “In Which a Sea Captain, a General, a Therapist, and a Man of God Enter the Tale” (p. 66)
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. xxii
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
Arun Shourie. NDTV. "Let's Have Tea": When Atal Bihari Vajpayee Made A Point With 3 Words https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/atal-bihari-vajpayee-death-lets-have-tea-when-atal-bihari-vajpayee-made-a-point-with-3-words-1901754 August 17, 2018
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Aids to Reflection, "Moral and Religious Aphorisms," Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&q=%22He+who+begins+by+loving+Christianity+better+than+truth+will+proceed+by+loving+his+own+sect+or+church+better+than+Christianity+and+end+in+loving+himself+better+than+all%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)