“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
Savitri (1918-1950), Book One : The Book Of Beginnings
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 490)
excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1897; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 193
w:Marie Bashkirtseff was a woman-painter born in the Ukraine, who died very young; her Journal was published c. 1895
1897
International Herald Tribune (29 October 1991)
Variant translation: If your heart is in the right place and you have good taste, not only will you pass muster in politics, you are destined for it. If you are modest and do not lust after power, not only are you suited to politics, you absolutely belong there.
Context: When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.
Preface To The First Edition, p. xvii
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition)
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
