“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“I talk thinking that I shouldn't talk: that is how I talk.”
Hablo pensando que no debiera hablar: así hablo.
Voces (1943)
“I don't know what Murdo's talking about.”
5-Nov-2005, Radio Derby
Phil responds to the director of football's desire to get more involved.
It's phony reverence. It's ridiculous.
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
Dhani Harrison " Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison interview Part three https://youtube.com/watch?v=B48tHi-l4PQ" at Youtube.com, 2002: Interview with Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison about George Harrison and his Brainwashed album.2002
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
As quoted in "Wisdom of a forefather" https://web.archive.org/web/20100716212616/http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=546 (11 February 2009), Colorado State University.
Posthumous attributions
Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: Bataille is associated with the surrealists. Basically the idea is that democracy doesn't work. Communism doesn't work. All these fucking models aren't working. We've got to find some new models — a model of what society should look like.
We don't know what humans are like. And the ground is not economics; it's not like people do everything they do for economic reasons. You've got to look at the imagination; you've got to look at sex. We have no way of describing these things using the language we have. So a group was formed around Bataille to try to figure out what it means to be human — what society should look like.
Humans have to live in a society — they can't just survive as individuals. That's not a viable condition. You know, everyone's always talking about trauma and pain and how this society isn't working, that we shouldn't have racism and sexism, but we never talk in positive terms — like what would joy be, what it would be like to have a totally great existence. Bataille and his followers looked for models for people to have totally great existences. … Well, they looked at tribal models and how they dealt with sexual stuff and sacrifice and property — the joys that aren't based on economic accumulation and the workaday world, but based on giving it all up — not having that specific, controlling, imprisoning "I." He wasn't a Freudian. He was much more interested in the tribal model where everything is on the surface and you deal with sexual stuff the same way you deal with economic stuff and social stuff.
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)