"Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse."

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Source : "Essays in Disguise" by Wilfrid Sheed, Knopf, (p. 156), 1990.

Wilfrid Sheed

#Brother Quotes #May Quotes #Watches Quotes

“I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.”
“That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.”
“The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.”
“Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator”
“I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.”
“My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.”
“The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.”

Source : Gae Aulenti, Margherita Petranzan (1997). “Gae Aulenti”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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