“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
What They Knew
What They Knew #13
““The language belongs to fishermen, not scholars.”
–Jorge Luis Borges (on efforts to impose an official diction on English)
What They Knew #12
“WAIT.”
–Franz Kafka (from the sign he had posted above his writing desk)
What They Knew #11
The unexamined life is not worth living.
–Socrates
…and examining your life makes you want to kill yourself.
–Saul Bellow
What They Knew #10
Some films are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake.
–Alfred Hitchcock
What They Knew #9
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
–Dr. Johnson
What They Knew #8
“If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
–Simone de Beauvoir
What They Knew #7
“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer
Jacke Wilson 