Source: Brave New World
“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.”
"Misery is the River of the World", Blood Money (2002).
“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”
The Stranger (1942)
“But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 173
"The Scarlet Z, for Zombie (Reaganite)" https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-scarlet-z-etc/ (15 August 2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review Online
2010s, 2014
“There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it.”
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 218
Context: There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it. I had loved my Nanking home and the little treasures it had contained, the lovely garden I had made, my life with friends and students. Well, that was over. I had nothing at all now except the old clothes I stood in. I should have felt sad, and I was quite shocked to realize that I did not feel sad at all. On the contrary, I had a lively sense of adventure merely at being alive and free, even of possessions. No one expected anything of me. I had no obligations, no duties, no tasks. I was nothing but a refugee, someone totally different from the busy young woman I had been. I did not even care that the manuscript of my novel was lost. Since everything else was gone, why not that?
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
