“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
Source: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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“I was thinking to myself out there — well, you wouldn't think you're anybody else, would you?”
Live from the West End (1995)
That would be a French basher."
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“I was talking about kids I knew and me.”
On Where the Wild Things Are
NOW interview (2004)
Context: I was talking about kids I knew and me. A book, an American book, where the child actually daunts his mother and threatens her.
No way. No way. And then on top of that, she puts him in a room and denies him food. No way. Mamas never do that kinda thing. Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of. And the worst offense, he comes home. She leaves food for him. And he's not punished. Not punished.
“I believe so... Don't accuse anybody else.”
Reply to the police when Vincent was asked if he had attempted to commit suicide (27 July 1890), as reported in "The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh" on 60 Minutes, 16 October 2011 http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-18560_162-20120760.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
1890s
International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm,
Source: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 9
