
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.”
Brunella, Act II, scene ii.
Theater Quotes
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.”
“Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child. You can waste … years, trying to get someone to give that sort of respect to you, as though it were some sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just … take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, "I’m sorry you feel like that", and walk away.
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Source: “1993: Jack Kirby: The Hardest Working Man in Comics by Steve Pastis” https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/category/interview/, Happening Magazine, (1993) by Steve Pastin; as quoted by Rand Hoppe, The Kirby Effect The Journal of the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center, (28 April 2018).
“You say you’re? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?”
Source: Never Let Me Go