“The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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Roland Barthes39
French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915–1980Related quotes
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-même
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-là que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
"Cortège", line 19; translation from Roger Shattuck (trans.) Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire (New York: New Directions, 1971) p. 75.
Alcools (1912)
“I am waiting for something to go wrong
I am waiting for familiar resolve”
Ben Gibbard (1976) American singer, songwriter and guitarist
Expo '86
Transatlanticism (2003)
Barry Mazur (1937) American mathematician
Barry Mazur, [Number Theory as Gadfly, Amer. Math. Monthly, 98, 1991, 593–610, http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/number-theory-as-gadfly]
Howard Stern (1954) American radio personality
Howard Stern on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN (January 18, 2011)
“I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"I Like Dogs", For Men (April 1939); reprinted in People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994); slightly paraphrased in "And So to Medve", Thurber's Dogs (1955)
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June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist
Source: Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person (1969), p. 46
“I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.”
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523), § 176, As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377
Variant: I am a lover of liberty. I cannot and will not serve parties.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 5