What They Knew – Page 2

November 24, 2013

What They Knew #14

“Everything intelligent is so boring.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Continue reading

November 18, 2013

““The language belongs to fishermen, not scholars.” –Jorge Luis Borges (on efforts to impose an official diction on English) Continue reading

November 4, 2013

“WAIT.” –Franz Kafka (from the sign he had posted above his writing desk) Continue reading

October 25, 2013

The unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates …and examining your life makes you want to kill yourself. –Saul Bellow Continue reading

October 14, 2013

Some films are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake. –Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading

October 11, 2013

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” –Dr. Johnson Continue reading

October 6, 2013

“If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.” –Simone de Beauvoir Continue reading

October 2, 2013

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.” –Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading

September 24, 2013

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.” ― Anton Chekhov Continue reading