“Attendants, will you please close and lock the doors?”
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George Antheil9
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor 1900–1959Related quotes
Gene Wolfe book Storeys from the Old Hotel
"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
“If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Interview with Colin Marshall (February 2015)
“People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.”
J. G. Ballard book Cocaine Nights
"Bobby Crawford"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.