“Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.”
PENN Address (2004)
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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960Related quotes
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
“Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.”
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice [Rose-Belford, 1878] ( p.288 https://books.google.com/books?id=zyFjcZUO3CUC&pg=PA288)
Also in The Supernatural And English fiction by Glen Cavaliero [Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-192-12607-5] (p. 39)
From the autobiography
1920s, Lecture on Dada', 1922
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8897537-people-change-just-in-a-blink-you-won-t-get-any
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
“As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.”
Colonel Sanders in Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore (2002)
