Source: A Civil Campaign
“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
“A revolution is not a dinner party”
Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 28.
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/big5/nonmarxists/mao/19270300.htm.湖南農民運動考察報告
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Context: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 53
“I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.”
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
Get the Party Started, written by Linda Perry
Song lyrics, Missundaztood (2001)
“The dying process begins the minute you are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 80
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
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A Writer's Notebook (1946)
"Break the Chains" (song), with Rationale (Tinashé Fazakerley)
("Break the Chains" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvosF7mbrnE
Studio albums, Some Nights Last for Days (2020)
