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Zusha of Hanipol (1719–1800) Ukrainian rabbi
Quoted by Martin Buber in Tales of the Hassidim: The Early Masters, Shocken Books 1968, p. 141.
Happy Rhodes (1965) American singer-songwriter
"The First To Cry" - Live performance New Haven, CT (4 April 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxKnOLRFiA <br class="br">Rhodes Volume I (1986)
“Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted in New York Times article "The Einstein Theory of Living; At 65 he leads the simplest of lives — and grapples with the most complex thoughts." http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FA3A58157A93C0A81788D85F408485F9 (12 March 1944) <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? <br class="br">As quoted in The Dark Side of Shakespeare : An Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero, p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=-5SxGKrTRUEC&pg=PA126 (2003) by W. Ron Hess <br class="br">Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me. <br class="br">As quoted in "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC (18 March 2005) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/ <br class="br">1940s
“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
Christopher Hitchens Mortality
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Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)
“To the dumb question "Why me?"”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
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2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
