“If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.”
Michael Frayn (1933) British writer
James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963) Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972
"`Time To Heal, Time For Peace'" in Chicago Tribune https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6VPc2Y8SsL4J:https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-11-12-9611120185-story.html+&cd=21&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (12 November 1996)
Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
“I thought… that we could at least talk about books.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
David Zindell book Neverness
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Neverness (1988)
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
Context: My ideas about fame and art are not brand new … We could watch Paris is Burning, we could read The Warhol Diaries, we could go to a party in New York in 1973 and these same things would be being talked about. I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a Warholian copycat. Some people say everything has been done before, and to an extent they are right. I think the trick is to honour your vision and reference and put together things that have never been put together before. I like to be unpredictable, and I think it's very unpredictable to promote pop music as a highbrow medium.
