Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
Source: Postcards from the Edge
“The only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring, as Dick Nixon would say.”
As quoted by Matt Labash, "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016) The Weekly Standard.
“In fact, there’s probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person.”
“What’s that?” asked Nimrod.
“Being able to understand him completely.”
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“There are worse things than being mad.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 4
