
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”
As quoted in Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941) by Irving Stone, Ch. 6
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”
As quoted in Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941) by Irving Stone, Ch. 6
Stump speech while running for student government at Santa Monica High School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcMydq6vGW8 (200?)
2000s
As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 8, by Hay Mills (1993).
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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Context: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.
“Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be.”
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be. The child seems happy all the time to the adult, because the adult knows that the child is untouched by the real problems of life; if the adult were similarly untouched he is sure that he would be happy. But children, not knowing that they are having an easy time, have a good many hard times. Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 6, “You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)” (pp. 145-146)