“You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?”

— Charles de Lint

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 267
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

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author 1951

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 24

“Humans don’t make sense.”
“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven’t had at least that, what have you had?”

Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist

Quoted in What’s On in London (15 August 2001).

“You don’t know what it’s like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli!”

Roger Zelazny book He Who Shapes

He Who Shapes (1965)
Context: You don’t know what it’s like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli! To know that a Mongoloid idiot can experience something you can never know — and that he cannot appreciate it because, like you, he was condemned before birth in a court of biological happenstance, in a place where there is no justice — only fortuity, pure and simple.