Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”
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Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer
Norah Vincent, Sex, Love and Politics, id., p. 41, col. 1.
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Notes on sourcing http://www.bartleby.com/73/1982.html <br class="br">Twain did say:<br>: "There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there … In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ...<br>Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it."<br>:* Speech at the dinner of New England Society in New York City (22 December 1876) <br class="br">Misattributed
“It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things.”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in My Love Affair with David Lynch and Peachy Like Nietzsche: Dark Clown Porn Snuff for Terrorists and Gorefiends (2005) by Jason Rogers, p. 7
Context: It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It is better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for someone else.
“I hate people forcing me to talk about my feelings,” said Alec.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: Born to Endless Night
“Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality?”
Gustave Flaubert book Sentimental Education
Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Sentimental Education (1869)
Context: Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality? Some see things black, others blue — the multitude sees them brute-fashion. There is nothing less natural than Michael Angelo; there is nothing more powerful! The anxiety about eternal truth is a mark of contemporary baseness; and art will become, if things go on in that way, a sort of poor joke as much below religion as it is below poetry, and as much below politics as it is below business. You will never reach its end — yes, its end! — which is to cause within us an impersonal exaltation, with petty works, in spite of all your finished execution.