Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The One Who Was Different"
The Lost World (1965)
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“To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980, Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974
“I just don't understand the need to name something "the best" or more better than something else.”
Harrison Ford (1942) American film actor and producer
Barbara Walters interview
Context: I just don't understand the need to name something "the best" or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance — there can't be a contest in this area. I don't understand that.
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
“Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 22 (p. 219)
“I would like to say something that I think people need to know more than how I deal with haters.”
Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist
In response to Time editor Edward Felsenthal question about how she dealt with all the haters
2020, Rolling Stone Interview: How one Swedish teenager armed with a homemade sign ignited a crusade and became the leader of a movement, Jack Davison, (March 2020)
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath