
We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
Variant: Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.
“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
[10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“What you know, you don't want to know
You're with stupid now.”
"You're With Stupid Now"
Song lyrics, I'm with Stupid (1995)
Context: Though you pay for the hands they're shaking
The speeches and the mistakes they're making
As they struggle with the undertaking
Of simple thought What you want, you don't know
You're with stupid now
What you know, you don't want to know
You're with stupid now.
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
Other
Source: Dreamsnake (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 205)