“It’s pretty human to smash the guy or the thing which tries to tell us something we don’t want to hear.”
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 179.
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American writer 1906–1963Related quotes
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
Rave UK Magazine, June 1967
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"The Art of Fiction No. 11" (1955)
Context: Well, I haven't consciously tried to develop [a style]. The only thing I've consciously tried to do was put myself in a position to hear the people I wanted to hear talk talk. I used the police lineup for I don't know how many years. [... ] I was just over on the South Side and got rolled. But they gave me a card, you know, to look for the guys in the lineup, and I used that card for something like seven years.
“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
Source: Ten Things I Love About You
Statement (8 March 2011), as quoted in "Libya on the Line: An interactive timeline Browse through a collection of conversations between Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam and other senior Libyan officials" at Aljazeera (11 May 2012) http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/libyaontheline/2012/05/201251173614897923.html
Al Jazeera's mobile phone wiretaps
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 3