"Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep."

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Source : Samuel R. Delany (1977). “Triton”, Macmillan Reference USA

Samuel R. Delany

#Hysterical Quotes #Authority Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”

Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.
“A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.”
“I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.”
“But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.”
“We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.”
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

Source : "When It Comes to Personal Transformation, Could the Ends Be the Means?" by Russell Bishop, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.
“Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.”

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