Source: https://seashellronan.tumblr.com/post/177462551225/half-of-me-is-a-hopeless-romantic-and-the-other
Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
“I'm hopeless about novels just now”
Potterism (1921) p.196. https://books.google.com/books?id=9tDSm2WzQxsC&pg=PA196
Context: Jane: What do you think of his book Arthur?
Gideon: I don't think of it. I've had no reason to, particularly. I've not had to review it.... I'm afraid I'm hopeless about novels just now, that's the fact. I'm sick of the form—slices of life served up cold in three hundred pages. Oh, it's very nice; it makes nice reading for people. But what's the use? Except, of course, to kill time for those who prefer it dead. But as things in themselves, as art, they've been ruined by excess. My critical sense is blunted just now. I can hardly feel the difference, though I can see it, between a good novel and a bad one. I couldn't write one, good or bad, to save my life, I know that. And I've got to the stage when I wish other people wouldn't. I wish everyone would shut up, so that we could hear ourselves think...
“Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.”
Letter to Gilbert Murray, December 28, 1902
1900s
“Little Jon Stewart(?) Is a pussy, he would be hopeless in a debate with me!”
Tweets about Jon Stewart and his choice to change his originally Jewish surname http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/2/13499036/jon-stewart-trump-feud (April-May 2013)
2010s, 2013
“But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.”
Source: My Life in France
