
“I do not say what I do not mean. Neither can anyone force me to say what I don't wish to say.”
Source:Anson Chan to Newsweek magazine in 1997.
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“I do not say what I do not mean. Neither can anyone force me to say what I don't wish to say.”
Source:Anson Chan to Newsweek magazine in 1997.
“It is impossible to say just what I mean!”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while If one, settling a
Pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
“They say Poland is the Mexico of Europe. I don't know what that means, but I like it.”
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In John Sloan on Drawing and Painting. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 2000. Originally published in 1939 as The Gist of Art, p. 7.
The Gist of Art (1939)
Introduction for his unfinished novel, Whistle (1978) the third part of his war trilogy (which was completed by Willie Morris); quoted in TIME magazine (13 March 1978) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919437,00.html
As quoted in Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War (1922) by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson.
1860s
“When God promises, He’s not saying, I’ll try. He means, I can and I will.”
Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 47