“In the end one needs forbearance to get by in this world.”
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
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Austrian writer 1881–1942Related quotes
Tavis Smiley Show, PBS http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200904/20090427_prince.html (April 27, 2009).
“People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.”
Source: Just Listen
"Look It Up! Check It Out!" (1986), p. 39
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Context: We seem to live mainly in order to see how we live, and this habit brings on what might be called the externalizing of knowledge; with every new manual there is less need for its internal, visceral presence. The owner or user feels confident that he possesses its contents — there they are, in handy form on the handy shelf. And with their imminent transfer to a computer, that sense of possession will presumably attach itself to the hard disk or the phone number of the data bank.
To say this is also to say that the age of ready reference is one in which knowledge inevitably declines into information. The master of so much packaged stuff has less need to grasp context or meaning than his forbears: he can always look it up. His active memory is otherwise engaged anyway, full of the arbitrary names, initials, and code figures essential to carrying on daily life. He can be vague about the rest: he can always check it out.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 47.
“If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.”
Lenny Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3345229.stm
